Cognitive Analysis of Dyslexia

Developmental dyslexia is a disorder which affects the acquisition of basic reading and spelling skills in childhood. Originally published in 1986 and reissued here with a new preface, adopting a cognitive approach to the problem, the author bases his discussion on the assumption that the mental system underlying reading competence can be represented as a set of information processors and that these components can be investigated by an application of the experimental methods of cognitive ps...