We review the characteristics of developmental language disorders (primary language
impairment, reading disorders, autism, Down syndrome) and acquired language disorders …

Arabic is a language with unique characteristics, yet the role metalinguistic skills (ie,
phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and orthographical knowledge) play in …

Beyond the established difficulties of individuals with dyslexia in word recognition and
spelling, it remains unclear how severe their difficulties in comprehension are. To examine …

This study is a cross-sectional developmental investigation of inflectional and derivational
morphological awareness (MA) in Arabic diglossia. It examines the impact of the …

The study examined spelling of the letter ت in Arabic among first-, second-, third-, fourth-,
and fifth-grade native Arabic-speaking children (N= 150). The letter is among the most …

This study explored the role and extent of the involvement of morphological awareness (MA)
in contrast to rapid automatized naming (RAN) in word reading and comprehension of …

The aim of this study was to investigate which cognitive and reading-related linguistic skills
contribute to reading comprehension of narrative and expository texts. The study examined …

We examined the longitudinal contribution of awareness of inflections and derivations to
reading comprehension in Arabic, a morphologically rich language, among 734 second …

The aim of this special issue is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of
literacy in Arabic. It provides a basis on which to consider some of the specific issues about …

Purpose We investigated the cognitive and linguistic processes that underlie reading in
Arabic in relation to a well-defined theoretical framework of reading and the factors that …