Practitioners frequently use diagnostic criteria to identify children with neurodevelopmental
disorders and to guide intervention decisions. These criteria also provide the organising …

Specific learning disabilities (SLDs) are highly relevant to the science and practice of
psychology, both historically and currently, exemplifying the integration of interdisciplinary …

The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working
memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of …

This article reviews 95 publications (based on 21 independent samples) that have examined
children at family risk of reading disorders. We report that children at family risk of dyslexia …

The authors report a systematic meta-analytic review of the relationships among 3 of the
most widely studied measures of children's phonological skills (phonemic awareness, rime …

Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives
Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in …

Comprehensive models of learning disorders have to consider both isolated learning
disorders that affect one learning domain only, as well as comorbidity between learning …

Developmental disorders and childhood learning difficulties encompass complex
constellations of relative strengths and weaknesses across multiple aspects of learning …

This paper reviews current proposals concerning the definition of dyslexia and contrasts it
with reading comprehension impairment. We then discuss methods for early identification …

Background Strong associations between infant vocabulary and school‐age language and
literacy skills would have important practical and theoretical implications: Preschool …