Language impairment and reading disability
Subtitle: interactions among brain, behavior, and experience
By: edited by Maria Mody and Elaine R. Silliman.
Contributors: Mody, Maria.; Silliman, Elaine R.
Series: Challenges in language and literacy
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781593858315
Subjects: Language disorders in children; Language disorders; Reading disability; Neuropsychology; Language Disorders -- therapy; Child; Learning Disorders -- therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Atypical neurodevelopmental variation as a basis for learning disorders / Jeffrey Gilger & Michael Wilkins; title: It's all about change: emergentism and language impairment in children / Julia Evans; title: Critical periods in second language learning: distinguishing phenomena from explanations / John T. Bruer; title: Defining and differentiating dysgraphia, dyslexia, and language learning disability within a working memory model / Virginia Berninger; title: Processing measures of cognitive-linguistic interactions for children with language impairment and reading disabilities / Jennifer Windsor & Kathryn Kohnert; title: Functional neuroimaging of normal and atypical spoken language / Deborah A. Weber and William D. Gaillard; title: Magnetoencephalographic indices of brain mechanisms for language comprehension / Panagiotis G. Simos, Shirin Sarkari, and Andrew C. Papanicolaou; title: Reading development in children at risk for dyslexia / Brian Byrne; title: Dyslexia: a new look at neural substrates / Sally E. Shaywitz, Jeffrey R. Gruen, and Bennett A. Shaywitz; title: Fostering form and meaning in emerging literacy using evidence-based practices /  Ann van Kleeck and Elizabeth Littlewood; title: Setting the stage: how children's progress in language and reading is dramatically affected by on-line dynamic mixes of social, executive function, emotional, biological, and input-interactive factors / Keith Nelson; title: Language-reading interface: future directions / Elaine R. Silliman and Maria Mody.