An understanding of the nature of writing systems and of the typical course of spelling
development is an essential foundation for understanding the problems of children who …

During its long history the problem of reducing language to writing, and conversely that of
interpreting written signs as language, has found a variety of solutions which still exist in the …

The Psychology of Reading provides a fair and coherent overall picture of how reading is
done and how it is best taught. It aims to relate reading to writing systems, analyze the …

Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy
acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners …

This study focused on English as L2 in a group of Norwegian dyslexic 12 year olds,
compared to an age and gender matched control group. Norwegian school children learn …

The first half of the book is about spelling, the second about computers. Chapter Two
describes how English spelling came to be in the state that it's in today. In Chapter Three I …

An overview of the goals of English orthography counters the misconception that its spelling
is chaotic and unprincipled. Direct representation of the speaker's phonemes is not its only …

It has been about twenty years since the beginning of the modern movement towards the
officially sanctioned use of signing in education of deaf children in most programs across the …

The instructional value of a set of spelling-to-sound rules can only be determined in the
context of the search for meaning from print. Most people assume that the most efficient …

Research on dyslexia has largely centred on reading. The aim of this study was to assess
the writing of 13 children with and 28 without dyslexia at age 11 years. A programme for …