Preface vii Acknowledgements xiii Chapter 1 The Nature of Dyslexia 1 Chapter 2 Basic Psychometrics and Assessment 25 Chapter 3 Assessing the Dyslexic Child 47 Chapter 4 Definition and Discrepancies 77 Chapter 5 Basic Neuropsychology 91 Chapter 6 Neuropsychology of Dyslexia 105 Chapter 7 Models of Reading and Spelling 137 Chapter 8 Models of Memory 165 Chapter 9 Phonological and Memory Deficits in Dyslexia 179 Chapter 10 The Social Psychology of Dyslexia 203 References 219 Index 231
Dr Michael Thomson is Principal of East Court, an internationally acclaimed specialist school for Dyslexia, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Applied Child Psychology at the University of Kent. He is also an executive editor of Dyslexia, the journal of the British Dyslexia Association, an Associate of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Educational Psychologist and a Fellow of the International Academy for Research into Learning Difficulties.
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