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 …

Fluent reading depends on a complex set of cognitive processes that must work together in
perfect concert. Rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks provide insight into this system …

How prevalent is dyslexia? A definitive answer to this question has been elusive because of
the continuous distribution of reading performance and predictors of dyslexia and because …

The study's goal was to identify the beginning of 1st grade quantitative competencies that
predict mathematics achievement start point and growth through 5th grade. Measures of …

This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises
over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds …

This paper addresses the question whether the cognitive underpinnings of reading and
spelling are universal or language/orthography-specific. We analyzed concurrent …

The Dyslexia Debate examines how we use the term" dyslexia" and questions its efficacy as
a diagnosis. While many believe that a diagnosis of dyslexia will shed light on a reader's …

Evidence that rapid naming skill is associated with reading ability has become increasingly
prevalent in recent years. However, there is considerable variation in the literature …

Alphabetic orthographies differ in the transparency of their letter-sound mappings, with
English orthography being less transparent than other alphabetic scripts. The outlier status …

The lexical quality hypothesis (LQH) claims that variation in the quality of word
representations has consequences for reading skill, including comprehension. High lexical …