Reading And Writing Acquisition

Part 1 Theoretical foundations: defining the developmental neuropsychological perspective; biological constraints on reading and writing acquisition; educational constraints on reading and writing acquisition. Part 2 Research on reading and writing acquisition from the developmental neuropsychological perspective: multiple connections and multiple procedures for reading and spelling single words; levels of language and intra-individual differences in levels of language in reading comprehension and composition; multiple constraints and shared subsystems in writing acquisition; implications of the developmental neuropsychological perspective for assessing, preventing and remediating reading and writing disabilities.