Title:
Childrens reading problems : psychology and education
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Publication Information:
Oxford, : Blackwell, 1985
ISBN:
9780631136835
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Summary
Summary
A surprisingly large number of otherwise `normal' children have problems learning to read, and these difficulties can produce disastrous consequences. Can we isolate the causes of reading problems? How can we best help backward readers? Peter Bryant and Lynette Bradley, in a trenchant and convincingly argued critique, show that many of the existing psychological explanations of reading problems are based on flawed research and on entirely inadequate evidence.
Author Notes
Peter Bryant is Watts Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford
Lynette Bradley is Senior Research Officer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oxford
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vi |
| 1 What is the problem? | p. 1 |
| 2 Getting the evidence right | p. 11 |
| 3 Is there a deficit? | p. 21 |
| 4 Awareness of sounds and reading | p. 52 |
| 5 Does the way backward readers read and spell reflect the way they think? | p. 76 |
| 6 Dyslexia, dyslexias | p. 98 |
| 7 Two ways of teaching backward readers | p. 116 |
| 8 The two methods in practice | p. 137 |
| Epilogue | p. 152 |
| References | p. 156 |
| Index | p. 162 |
