Routes To Reading Success and Failure

Jackson, Nancy E.; Coltheart, Max

• Inroduction. A Framework for Understanding Atypical Reading: Proximal and Distal Causes of Individual Differnces in Reading. Dual-route Model of Reading. Acquired Dyslexia. Learning to Read and its Difficulties. Precocious Reading and Hyperlexia. Commonalities and Conclusions.

'I was very impressed by the intellectual precision of the authors and their scholarship. They have taken three areas of inquiry - the acquisition of literacy, developmental dyslexia, and acquired dyslexia - and have linked them together inside the framework of an information processing model. They have applied the framework in a way which illuminates all the areas discussed, and have set new standards for theorizing in these domains.' - Professor John Morton, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London; 'This book provides a unique and much-needed synthesis of the reading acquisition literature and the cognitive clinical neuropsychological literature. It should influence cognitive neuropsychology and reading research over the next decade, and will be widely read and cited.' - Professor Virginia Berninger, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Washington.