Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain

by Angela Fawcett, Roderick I. Nicolson, Angela J. Fawcett

Book Overview

A unique overview of research on dyslexia and an account of the underlying causes at cognitive, brain, and neural system levels that provides a framework for significant progress in the understanding of dyslexia and other related learning disabilities.

Dyslexia research has made dramatic progress since the mid-1980s. Once discounted as a "middle-class myth," dyslexia is now the subject of a complex--and confusing--body of theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515091
• ISBN13: 9780262515092
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher