This document discusses reading development and dyslexia from a neuropsychological perspective. It covers topics like the evolution of literacy, reading circuits in the brain, word recognition stages, phonics vs. whole language instruction, challenges associated with dyslexia like phonological awareness and grapheme-phoneme conversion, and interventions for different types of reading difficulties. Diagrams and neuroimaging are presented to illustrate these concepts.
14. Type II activation (sources location):
Strongest for visible words
~ 150ms after stimulus onset
left predominant occipito-temporal
increases with string length
= letter-string specific
41. Segmentation Example Consistency
(spelling / sound)
Initial
Consonant
s soap, sail,
sea
96%
Vowel u fun, cut,
bull
51%
Final
consonant
p tap, cup,
leap
91%
CV - ba in bat,
ball, bar
52%
- VC ut in hut,
nut, put
77%
42. WORD READING ACROSS LANGUAGES
95%
95%
97%
95%
98%
95%
95%
97%
97%
94%
Finnish
Greek
Italian
Spanish
Portuguese
French
English
Shallow
Deep
Seymour et al., 2003
71%
33%
79%
73%