Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia

J.P. Das is an Indo-Canadian psychologist and an internationally recognized expert in Intelligence. Among his major contributions to psychology is the PASS (Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive) theory of intelligence. He is currently engaged in expanding planning to include executive functions. What might be the implications of these higher mental activities for education as well as management behavior is the topic of this book.Professor Das is an Emeritus Director of the Centre on Developmental & Learning Disabilities (named after him) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Psychology. He has authored and co-authored over a dozen of books and contributed more than 300 research papers to international journals and edited volumes. His earlier published titles with SAGE include Cognitive Planning: The Psychological Basis of Intelligent Behaviour (1996, co-authored with Binod C. Kar and Rauno K. Parrila); The Working Mind (1998); Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers (2009); and Consciousness Quest: East Meets West (2014).

The second edition of Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers offers a fresh look at an exciting field of research by providing teacher-friendly information on what dyslexia is, how we can assess reading, and what can we do for children who have reading difficulties. J.P. Das, a seasoned author and researcher, has given us a book that brings research on reading difficulties into classrooms and serves as a reminder that intervention practices are effective when they are driven by theory.

• Foreword by Prakash PadakannayaPreface to the Updated EditionPreface to the First EditionPART I Understanding Reading DifficultiesDyslexia and Learning Difficulties: IntroductionGood and Poor ReadersFrom Nursery Rhymes to Phonological CodingWhat’s New about Phonological ProcessesStages of Reading DevelopmentExplaining Dyslexia: Recent Advances in NeuroscienceExplaining Reading by IntelligenceReading and ComprehensionReading and Comprehension: A Second LookSpelling and WritingPART II Remediation of Reading and Learning DifficultiesTheory and PracticeCOGENT Program: Getting Ready to ReadA Taste of COGENT: Program ModulesCOGENT Works: Early EvidenceHow Does Reading Readiness Work? A Taste of COGENTPREP: A Remediation Program Based on PASSA Taste of PREP in Words and PicturesCase HistoriesConceptual Basis for School Readiness and LiteracyPART III: The Next StepsThe Way ForwardIntegration of Contemporary Views on ReadingChildren Learning MathEpilogue: New Horizons in Understanding ReadingNotesBibliography