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4 - A brief history of time, phonology, and other explanations of developmental dyslexia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Maryanne Wolf
Affiliation:
Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research and Professor of Child Development Tufts University
Jane Ashby
Affiliation:
Researcher University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kurt W. Fischer
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Jane Holmes Bernstein
Affiliation:
The Children's Hospital, Boston
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Overview: Throughout the history of the study of reading disabilities, research has been plagued by the heterogeneity inherent in individuals with dyslexia and the apparent contradictions in findings that this variability produces. In this thematic review of historical and current approaches, the authors transform this view of variability to show how it is a key source of information about development of the normal reading process and sources of reading problems. The new emphasis on connecting mind, brain, and education requires relating neurological and behavioral aspects of dyslexia in its varied forms. In their work the authors focus especially on understanding how reading disability relates both to processes underlying the slow retrieval of names for common visual stimuli, such as letters, numbers, and colors, and also to phonological processes. They discuss the educational implications of their findings for the historical conflict between “whole language” and “phonological” approaches to reading instruction. Looking to the future, they suggest that only through considering the complexity of the reading process and the variability present in reading disability profiles can progress be made in unlocking the true nature of this disorder.

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The title of this paper, “A brief history of time, phonology, and other explanations of developmental dyslexia,” was meant not only to evoke the title of Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time (1988), but also to underscore the similarly Sisyphean nature of both endeavors.

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