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Reading Disabilities

Genetic and Neurological Influences

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Bruce F. Pennington

    1. University of Denver, USA

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Part of the book series: Neuropsychology and Cognition (NPCO, volume 4)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Genetic and Neurological Influences on Reading Disability: An Overview

      • Bruce F. Pennington
      Pages 3-13

  3. Genetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Risk for Reading Disability as a Function of Parental History in Three Family Studies

      • Jeffrey W. Gilger, Bruce F. Pennington, J. C. Defries
      Pages 17-29

    3. Antecedents to Reading Disability: Preschool Language Development and Literacy Experiences of Children from Dyslexic Families

      • Hollis S. Scarborough
      Pages 31-45

    4. Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Word Recognition and Process Measures in the Colorado Reading Project

      • R. K. Olson, J. J. Gillis, J. P. Rack, J. C. Defries, D. W. Fulker
      Pages 47-60

    5. Which Aspects of Processing Text Mediate Genetic Effects?

      • Jim Stevenson
      Pages 61-81

    6. Genetic Etiology of Spelling Deficits in the Colorado and London Twin Studies of Reading Disability

      • J. C. Defries, Jim Stevenson, Jacquelyn J. Gillis, Sally J. Wadsworth
      Pages 83-95

    7. Screening for Multiple Genes Influencing Dyslexia

      • Shelley D. Smith, William J. Kimberling, Bruce F. Pennington
      Pages 97-110

    8. Multiple Regression Analysis of Sib-Pair Data on Reading to Detect Quantitative Trait Loci

      • D. W. Fulker, L. R. Cardon, J. C. Defries, W. J. Kimberling, B. F. Pennington, S. D. Smith
      Pages 111-125

    9. Cognitive and Academic Skills in Children with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities

      • Bruce G. Bender, Mary Linden, Arthur Robinson
      Pages 127-139

  4. Neurology / Neuropsychology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Planum Temporale Asymmetry: In-Vivo Morphometry Affords a New Perspective for Neuro-Behavioral Research

      • Helmuth Steinmetz, Albert M. Galaburda
      Pages 143-155

    3. Developmental Dyslexia, Neurolinguistic Theory and Deviations in Brain Morphology

      • George W. Hynd, Richard M. Marshall, Margaret Semrud-Clikeman
      Pages 157-174

    4. The Neuropathology of Developmental Dysphasia: Behavioral, Morphological, and Physiological Evidence for a Pervasive Temporal Processing Disorder

      • Paula Tallal, Robert L. Sainburg, Terry Jernigan
      Pages 175-189

    5. Investigation of Abnormal Left Temporal Functioning in Dyslexia Through rCBF, Auditory Evoked Potentials, and Positron Emisson Tomography

      • Frank Wood, Lynn Flowers, Monte Buchsbaum, Paula Tallal
      Pages 191-205

    6. Cerebral Laterality in Dyslexic Children: Implications for Phonological Word Decoding Deficits

      • John Kershner, John Micallef
      Pages 207-223

    7. Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Ability

      • Linda Aguiar, Susan Brady
      Pages 225-237

  5. Discussion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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About this book

This book is unique in that it brings together in one place an account of recent advances in our understanding of the biology of dyslexia. It grew out of a Rodin Remediation Foundation International conference held on this topic in Boulder, Colorado in 1990, which included most of the world's experts on the genetics and neurology of dyslexia. Ten years ago a volume on this topic would scarcely been possible, and now we have an emerging, comprehensive neuroscientific understanding of this complex behavioral disorder that goes from genes to brain to behavior. Building on recent advances in the understanding of the cognitive phenotype of dyslexia, these authors present new data on both the etiology and brain mechanisms underlying that phenotype. Reading disability or dyslexia has a high familial recurrence rate, and is partly heritable. Genetic linkage studies are beginning to identify the possible locations of genes influencing this phenotype. On the neurological side, several independent studies have found neuroanatomical differences in the dyslexic brain, which are due to early changes in brain development. Thus, contrary to the views held by some educators that dyslexia is a myth, the results presented in this book firmly establish dyslexia as a real, biological condition.
This book is relevant to researchers and practitioners concerned with both normal and abnormal reading development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Denver, USA

    Bruce F. Pennington

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reading Disabilities

  • Book Subtitle: Genetic and Neurological Influences

  • Editors: Bruce F. Pennington

  • Series Title: Neuropsychology and Cognition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2450-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1606-0Published: 31 January 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5081-4Published: 25 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2450-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0927-0116

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 253

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Neurology, Psychology, general

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