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Modularity in developmental disorders: Evidence from Specific Language Impairment and peripheral dyslexias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Naama Friedmann
Affiliation:
School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, [email protected] http://www.tau.ac.il/~naamafr
Aviah Gvion
Affiliation:
School of Education, Tel Aviv University, and Reuth Medical Center, Tel Aviv, 69978 [email protected]

Abstract

Evidence from various subtypes of Specific Language Impairment and developmental peripheral dyslexias is presented to support the idea that even developmental disorders can be modular. However, in developmental letter position dyslexia and neglect dyslexia we show that additional errors can occur because of insufficient orthographic-lexical knowledge.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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