Pascale Colé - Böcker

This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive international perspective on how dyslexia manifests across the lifespan, with a rare and valuable focus on adults. Each chapter meticulously examines research on critical aspects of dyslexia relevant to adult populations.The book delivers an in-depth assessment of the dyslexic reader's neurocognitive profile—exploring language processing, memory systems, learning mechanisms, executive functions, and neurobiological foundations. Readers will find evidence-based approaches to screening, diagnosis, and intervention specifically tailored to adults with dyslexia.The text addresses crucial questions about long-term cognitive risk factors while highlighting how adults with dyslexia develop resilience through effective compensatory strategies. By synthesizing diverse research into a single authoritative resource, this book serves as an essential reference for scholars, students, and professionals worldwide who seek to understand how dyslexia impacts training, education, and employment throughout adulthood.

Most studies on reading have been conducted with English-speaking subjects. It is crucial to also examine studies conducted in different languages, in order to highlight which aspects of reading acquisition and dyslexia appear to be language-specific, and which are universal.Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia sheds new light on dyslexia and its relationship with reading acquisition, presenting two unique advancements in this area. Looking at studies conducted in different languages, the prerequisites of reading acquisition are examined, and the findings from studies of skilled adult readers are presented. The manifestations of developmental dyslexia and the main contemporary explanations for it are outlined, providing an in-depth, well researched discussion of the topic. The authors conclude by offering a new framework which could explain both reading acquisition and developmental dyslexia.A fascinating book offering a unique insight into the topic of dyslexia, it will be of great interest to students and lecturers in cognitive psychology, educational psychology, and psycholinguistics, as well as those with a more everyday involvement with the disorder such as speech and language therapists.

This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive international perspective on how dyslexia manifests across the lifespan, with a rare and valuable focus on adults. Each chapter meticulously examines research on critical aspects of dyslexia relevant to adult populations.The book delivers an in-depth assessment of the dyslexic reader's neurocognitive profile—exploring language processing, memory systems, learning mechanisms, executive functions, and neurobiological foundations. Readers will find evidence-based approaches to screening, diagnosis, and intervention specifically tailored to adults with dyslexia.The text addresses crucial questions about long-term cognitive risk factors while highlighting how adults with dyslexia develop resilience through effective compensatory strategies. By synthesizing diverse research into a single authoritative resource, this book serves as an essential reference for scholars, students, and professionals worldwide who seek to understand how dyslexia impacts training, education, and employment throughout adulthood.