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 …

We summarize some of the most important findings from research evaluating the
hypothesized causes of specific reading disability ('dyslexia') over the past four decades …

The emerging etiological model for developmental disorders, like dyslexia, is probabilistic
and multifactorial while the prevailing cognitive model has been deterministic and often …

The visual attention (VA) span is defined as the amount of distinct visual elements which can
be processed in parallel in a multi-element array. Both recent empirical data and theoretical …

This article investigates how well kindergarten phonological awareness (PA) and naming
speed (NS) account for reading development to Grade 5. The authors use regression …

Chinese, Koreans and Japanese have a long and rich cultural history. In the past several
decades they have achieved spectacular economic success. Japan and China became the …

Tasks representing 9 cognitive constructs of potential importance to understanding Chinese
reading development and impairment were administered to 75 children with dyslexia and 77 …

Most current theories of reading and dyslexia derive from a relatively narrow empirical base:
research on English and a handful of other European alphabets. Furthermore, the two …

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

Using data provided by approximately 100 second graders each from Beijing, Hong Kong,
Korea, and the United States, we investigated relations among phonological awareness …