Contributors. Acknowledgements. Editorial. Part 1: Biological bases. Chapter 1 Genetics and Dyslexia: an overview - John C.DeFries. Chapter 2 Neurobiological issues in dyslexia - Drake D. Duane.
Chapter 3 Vision and language - John F. Stein. Chapter 4 EEG topographical mapping and laterality measures in dyslexic children - Georgina Rippon. Part II: The normal development of literacy. Chapter 5 The development of reading and spelling in children: an overview - Linnea Ehri. Chapter 6 Spelling and sound in learning to read - Nick Ellis. Chapter 7 Metaphonological abilities and literacy - Jose Morais. Chapter 8 Recent work on reading and spelling development - Usha Goswami.
Part III: The definition, nature and prevalence of dyslexia. Chapter 9 The theoretical and practical consquences of discrepancy definitions of dyslexia - Keith E. Stanovich. Chapter 10 On determining the prevalence of dyslexia - Tim R. Miles. Chapter 11 Phonological and visual segmentation problems in poor readers - Rhona Brown and Frances Watson. Part IV: Intervention: theoretical and practical issues. Chapter 13 Dyslexia: the obvious and hidden speech and language disorder - Joy Stackhouse and Bill Wells.
Chapter 14 Visual dyslexia/auditory dyslexia: is this a valuable distinction? - Elaine Miles. Chapter 15 Is medicinal treatment of dyslexia advisable - Colin Wilsher. Part V: Intervention: empirical studies of teaching. Chapter 16 The remediation of reading comprehension difficulties. Chapter 17 The beneficial effect of accelerating reading rate: on dyslexic readers' reading comprehension - Zvia Breznitz. Chapter 18 The teaching of spelling using techniques of simultaneous oral spelling and visual inspection - Michael Thomson. Part VI: Intervention: the practical skills of dyslexic teaching. Chapter 19 Factors to consider when designing a test protocol in mathematics for dyslexics - Steve J Chinn.
Chapter 20 Mathematics and dyslexics - after basics what then? - Anne Henderson. Chapter 21 Communication and study skills at primary level - Patience Thomson. Chapter 22 Curriculum-based study skills - Virginia Kelly. Chapter 23 The road to reading: basic skills to college allowances - Arlene W. Sonday. Chapter 24 Setting up a learning programme for adult dyslexics - Cynthia Klein. Chapter 25 The dyslexic child's transfer of learning from the individual less to work in the classroom - Ann Cooke. Chapter 26 The use of tape-recorders to develop speaking and listening skills - Jeanne Reilly.
Chapter 27 Pupil's self-evaluation as an aid to teaching handwriting - Jane Taylor. Chapter 28 A multisensory approach towards reading music - Margaret Hubicki. Index.