How Children Learn to Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice

by Ken Pugh (Editor), Peggy D. McCardle (Editor)

This book brings together in one volume information about the neurobiological, genetic, and behavioral bases of reading and reading disabilities. In recent years, research on assessment and treatment of reading disability (dyslexia) has become a magnet for the application of new techniques and technologies from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. This interdisciplinary fusion has yielded numerous and diverse findings regarding the brain basis of this syndrome, which are discussed in this volume by leading researchers. Intervention approaches based on such research are presented. The book also calls for research in specific directions, to encourage the field to continue moving into the bold frontier of how the brain reads.

The volume is essential reading for a range of researchers, clinicians, and other professionals interested in reading and reading disability, and also commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Extraordinary Brain Conferences hosted by The Dyslexia Foundation.

378 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2009

About the author

A principal consultant with Pugh-Killeen Associates since 1982). His professional interests are development processes (especially agile ones), object-oriented design, and security. He has been involved with projects ranging from satellite tracking to goat serum process control to stock portfolio analysis. He's ambidexterous - developing for both Windows and UNIX/Linux.