A critical handbook for practitioners and clinicians engaged in processing assessments In
the newly revised third edition of Essentials of Processing Assessment, a team of …

Few previous studies have directly linked the contribution of phonological awareness (PA)
and rapid automatized naming (RAN) to the development of phonological processing and …

Copying characters presented previously (delayed copying) is an important skill in Chinese
literacy acquisition. The relations of delayed copying and a set of literacy-related skills …

We examined the cognitive predictors of early word reading skills in Japanese syllabic
Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Eighty-three Japanese kindergarten children (M age …

This chapter considers some basic characteristics of the Chinese language and script, and
discusses how it is learned in different Chinese‐speaking regions. It points out the cognitive …

Developmental dyslexia, as a major type of Specific Learning Disabilities (SpLD), can
impact not only children's literacy acquisition but also their learning in many other subjects …

Research on literacy development in Chinese children has increased at an accelerated rate
in the past decades. There is now consensus that, although word recognition in Chinese …

The purpose of the present study is to review the literature written about the concept of
“Transfer of Language Skills”. The focus of the review was on the methodology used on the …

The aim of this study was to examine how Arabic-speaking children construct orthographic
representations and to identify cognitive/linguistic abilities that may facilitate novel word …

Dyslexia is a specific reading difficulty in decoding (sounding out words), spelling, and
accurate and/or fluent word recognition, despite normal intelligence and in the absence of …