Neuropsychological Treatment of Dyslexia

by Dirk J. Bakker

This volume provides a complete description of the relationship between learning to read and hemispheric functioning, which has been found to change during the course of development. Initial reading skills are controlled primarily by the right cerebral hemisphere, but as readers become more advanced, the left hemisphere becomes dominant. Some children fail to make this shift and are at risk of developing one dyslexia, while children who prematurely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061322
• ISBN13: 9780195061321
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"