Current theoretical interpretations of naming speed and the research literature on its relation
to reading are reviewed in this article. The authors examine naming speed's effects across …

There is strong converging evidence suggesting that developmental dyslexia stems from a
phonological processing deficit. However, this hypothesis has been challenged by the …

The twofold purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the relative importance of
decoding skills to reading comprehension in reading development and to identify which …

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

The last 25 years have seen tremendous advances in the study of psychological processes
in reading. Our growing body of knowledge on the reading process and reading acquisition …

This important new text is a comprehensive survey of current thinking and research on a
wide range of developmental disorders. Highlights key research on normal and typical …

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

The aims of this study were to investigate whether the executive functions, inhibition, shifting,
and updating, are distinguishable as latent variables (common factors) in children aged 9 to …

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

Discriminative language markers and predictive links between early language and literacy
skills were investigated retrospectively in the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia in …