Developmental Dyslexia across Languages and Writing Systems

This volume presents the first truly systematic multi-disciplinary and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia. Bringing together a team of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines it takes a dual focus on the language-specific properties of dyslexia and on its core components across languages and orthographies to challenge theories on the nature identification and prevalence of dyslexia and to reveal new insights. Part I highlights the nature identification and prevalence of dyslexia across multiple languages including English French Dutch Czech and Slovakian Finnish Arabic Hebrew Japanese and Chinese while Part II takes a cross-linguistic stance on topics such as the nature of dyslexia the universals that determine relevant precursor measures competing hypotheses of brain-based deficits modelling outcomes etiologies and intergenerational gene-environment interactions.