Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-81-7829-895-5
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 300 g

This book is a ready reckoner on dyslexia, a condensed and updated source of information on the subject, for not only teachers and parents, but also for professionals concerned with Learning Disabilities. For the school psychologist, the book is an interpretation that gives pre-eminence to the PASS (Planning-Attention-Simultaneous-Successive) theory of cognitive processes—the four major processes that replace traditional views of IQ and redefine intelligence.

Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers answers questions like: What is dyslexia? How do reading difficulties develop? How does one deal with dyslexia? Is there a valid remedial procedure? The answers are meant not only to help understand specific reading problems in the context of intelligence, but also guide remediation.

The book provides a selective review of the existing knowledge in the field. By presenting lively discussions on competing views, controversies, recent advances and unresolved issues, it tries to demystify the continuing enigma of dyslexia. It will be an immensely engaging and informative read for students and researchers studying Psychology and Education and also those working in the fields of other cognitive sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das, J. P.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

PART I: UNDERSTANDING READING DIFFICULTIES
Good and Poor Readers

From Nursery Rhymes to Phonological Coding

Stages of Reading Development

Explaining Reading by Intelligence

Reading and Comprehension

Spelling and Writing

PART II: REMEDIATION OF READING AND LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
Theory and Practice

COGENT Program: Getting Ready to Read

A Taste of COGENT: Program Modules

COGENT Works: Early Evidence

How Does Reading Readiness Work? A Taste of COGENT

PREP: A Remediation Program Based on PASS

A Taste of PREP in Words and Pictures

Case Histories

PART III: THE NEXT STEPS
The Way Forward

Integration of Contemporary Views on Reading

Epilogue: New Horizons in Understanding Reading

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Das, J. P.
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).