Ludo Verhoeven

Kenneth Pugh

Charles Perfetti

The first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia.

Developmental Dyslexia across Languages and Writing Systems

Hendrik Boeschoten

The book offers a discussion of current research interests in the field of Turkish linguistics. Aspects of linguistic theory are addressed in chapters on phonology, syntax and semantics. The study of language use is represented by chapters on the acquisition of Turkish and on language variation.

Turkish Linguistics Today

Sonali Nag

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book provides the first truly systematic, multidisciplinary and multi-language view of factors that affect global variation in literacy development. It is essential reading for researchers and advanced students in child literacy development and literacy teaching and learning.

Global Variation in Literacy Development

Around the world, children embark on learning to read in their home language or writing system. But does their specific language, and how it is written, make a difference to how they learn? How is learning to read English similar to or different from learning in other languages? Is reading alphabetic writing a different challenge from reading syllabic or logographic writing? Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems examines these questions across seventeen languages representing the world's different major writing systems. Each chapter highlights the key features of a specific language, exploring research on learning to read, spell, and comprehend it, and on implications for education. The editors' introduction describes the global spread of reading and provides a theoretical framework, including operating principles for learning to read. The editors' final chapter draws conclusions about cross-linguistic universal trends, and the challenges posed by specific languages and writing systems.

Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems

Frank Wijnen

Peter de Jong

Voor het diagnosticeren en behandelen van dyslexie wordt een protocol gevolgd dat in 2006 is ingesteld. Sinds die tijd zijn er veel nieuwe inzichten ten aanzien van de onderkenning en behandeling van dyslexie opgedaan. Bovendien is er in het klinisch veld ruime ervaring verkregen met het werken aan de hand van het genoemde protocol. De positieve en negatieve effecten beginnen zich af te tekenen, zodat het protocol op basis van nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten en ervaringen vanuit de praktijk tegen het licht kan worden gehouden in het perspectief van optimalisering. In dit boek staat daarom de vraag centraal of, en zo ja op welke wijze, het protocol toe is aan een update. Met andere woorden: moet er een versie 2.0 komen van het protocol voor diagnose en behandeling van dyslexie? In dit boek wordt deze vraag ingeleid door allereerst de inhoud van het huidige protocol samen te vatten en vervolgens nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten omtrent de etiologie, het diagnosticeren en behandelen van dyslexie en ervaringsgegevens vanuit de praktijk te belichten. Van daaruit worden de contouren van een follow-up versie van het protocol geschetst.

Dyslexie 2.0 Update van het Protocol Dyslexie Diagnostiek en Behandeling

This book examines how children learn to read across seventeen languages and their orthographies. Each chapter discusses a different language in terms of its writing system, reading development, and implications for education. The editors' comprehensive introduction frames the key issues and the final chapter draws conclusions across the seventeen languages.

Hans van Balkom

Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders. They address the question: How can the child's linguistic environment be restructured so that children at risk can develop important adaptive skills in the domains of self-care, social interaction, and problem solving? This theory-based, but practical book emphasizes the importance of accurate definitions of subtypes for assessment and intervention. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners in the field of developmental language disorders.

Theoretical Issues and Clinical Implications

Classification of Developmental Language Disorders

Sven Stromqvist

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994). Working closely with Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin, the new editors have brought together a wide range of scholars who, inspired by the 1994 book, have all used Mercer Mayer's Frog, Where Are You? as a basis for their research. The new book, which is divided into two parts, features a broad linguistic and cultural diversity. Contributions focusing on crosslinguistic perspectives make up the first part of the book. This part is concluded by Dan Slobin with an analysis and overview discussion of factors of linguistic typology in frog-story research. The second part offers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, all dealing with contextual variation of narrative construction in a wide sense: variation across medium/modality (speech, writing, signing), genre variation (the specific frog story narrative compared to other genres), frog story narrations from the perspective of theory of mind, and from the perspective of bilingualism and second language acquisition. Several of the contributions to the new book manuscript also deal with developmental perspectives, but, in distinction to the 1994 book, that is not the only focused issue. The second part is initiated by Ruth Berman with an analysis of the role of context in developing narrative abilities. The new book represents a rich overview and illustration of recent advances in theoretical and methodological approaches to the crosslinguistic study of narrative discourse. A red thread throughout the book is that crosslinguistic variation is not merely a matter of variation in form, but also in content and aspects of cognition. A recurrent perspective on language and thought is that of Dan Slobin's theory of "thinking for speaking," an approach to cognitive consequences of linguistic diversity. The book ends with an epilogue by Herbert Clark, "Variations on a Ranarian Theme."

Ludo Verhoeven

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