Developmental Dyslexia across Languages
and Writing Systems
This volume presents the first truly systematic, multidisciplinary, and crosslinguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the
emergence of dyslexia. Bringing together a team of scholars from a wide
variety of disciplines, it places a dual focus on the language-specific properties of dyslexia and on its core components across languages and orthographies, in order to challenge theories on the nature, identification, and
prevalence of dyslexia, and to reveal new insights. Part I highlights the nature,
identification, and prevalence of dyslexia across multiple languages including
English, French, Dutch, Czech and Slovakian, Finnish, Arabic, Hebrew,
Japanese, and Chinese, while Part II takes a cross-linguistic stance on topics
such as the nature of dyslexia, the universals that determine relevant precursor
measures, competing hypotheses of brain-based deficits, modeling outcomes,
etiologies, and intergenerational gene–environment interactions.
ludo verhoeven is Professor of Communication, Language, and Literacy
in the Behaviour Science Institute at Radboud University Nijmegen and at the
University of Curaçao.
charles perfetti is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology
and Director of the Learning Research and Development Center at the
University of Pittsburgh.
kenneth pugh is Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut
and Associate Professor of Linguistics and Medicine at Yale University, and
he is President and Director of Research, and Senior Scientist at Haskins
Laboratories.
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Developmental Dyslexia across
Languages and Writing Systems
Edited by
Ludo Verhoeven
Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Curaçao
Charles Perfetti
University of Pittsburgh
Kenneth Pugh
Yale University
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Title: Developmental dyslexia across languages and writing systems / edited by
Ludo Verhoeven, Charles Perfetti, Kenneth Pugh.
Description: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019] | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019010033 | ISBN 9781108428774 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Dyslexia – Case studies. | Reading disability – Case studies. |
Language and languages.
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