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Dyslexia and Hyperlexia

Diagnosis and Management of Developmental Reading Disabilities

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. P. G. Aaron

    1. Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA

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Part of the book series: Neuropsychology and Cognition (NPCO, volume 1)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Reading Disabilities: The Puzzle and the History

    • P. G. Aaron
    Pages 2-35

  3. The Reading Process

    • P. G. Aaron
    Pages 37-89

  4. Etiologies of Developmental Dyslexia and Hyperlexia

    • P. G. Aaron
    Pages 91-136

  5. Developmental Dyslexia and Hyperlexia: Delineation of the Disorders

    • P. G. Aaron
    Pages 138-160

  6. The “Syndromes1” of Developmental Dyslexia and Hyperlexia

    • P. G. Aaron
    Pages 162-191

  7. Differential Diagnosis of Reading Disabilities

    • P. G. Aaron
    Pages 193-217

  8. Treatment and Management of Reading Disabilities

    • P. G. Aaron
    Pages 219-249

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 252-302
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About this book

Even though I had been studying reading problems in children for a number of years as a means of understanding cognitive processes, I became deeply committed to the study of developmental dyslexia after my encounter with S. H. , a dyslexic college student. Until then, dyslexia to me remained an interesting phenomenon but somewhat removed from the mainstream of my research interests. The facts that, in spite of his superior IQ, S. H. could read no better than a child in the fifth grade and misspelled even common words such as was and here, however, took me by surprise and made me appreciate the intriguing and challenging nature of developmental dyslexia. This led to a series of studies of college students with reading disability, a group that is relatively unexplored. The general plan of these investigations was to study a small number of disabled readers at any given time, rather intensively. Even though this approach limits the generalizability of the research findings, it lays bare some of the most interesting facts about dyslexia which are obscured in large-scale statistical studies. These studies have now extended well over a decade and are still continuing. As soon as these studies were started, it became obvious that not all reading-disabled college students are alike and that disabled readers could be classified into three broad categories: those with poor decod­ ing skill, those with poor comprehension ability, and those with a combination of these two deficits.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA

    P. G. Aaron

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dyslexia and Hyperlexia

  • Book Subtitle: Diagnosis and Management of Developmental Reading Disabilities

  • Authors: P. G. Aaron

  • Series Title: Neuropsychology and Cognition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1065-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3155-1Published: 30 September 1994

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1065-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0927-0116

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 324

  • Topics: Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation

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