· 2017· Book chapter
Beneath the Surface of Developmental Dyslexia
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Short summary
Developmental dyslexia is best understood as a developmental arrest, not a deficit, with affected children showing impaired phonetic spelling despite acquiring sight-word vocabulary.
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Key points
- Developmental dyslexia is proposed to be a developmental arrest rather than a deficit.
- Children with dyslexia acquire sight-word vocabulary but have impaired phonetic spelling.
- This perspective aids in resolving the controversy surrounding the existence of developmental dyslexia.
- Developmental dyslexia differs from acquired dyslexia in the lack of clear subtypes.
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Abstract
The progress in understanding of acquired dyslexia was due not to such collections of empirical data, but rather to the fruitful application of detailed information-processing models to reading failure. The new definition of developmental dyslexia as developmental arrest has some important implications. The lack of a clear concept of developmental disorders has not helped the still faintly burning controversy as to whether developmental dyslexia exists, although there are other reasons for the controversy as well. These children were able to acquire a considerable sight-word vocabulary, but, when compared with normal children from the same school who had a similar sight vocabulary, showed a greatly impaired phonetic spelling strategy. Relevant to this question is the often-quoted absence of classic developmental dyslexia in Japan. The frequent failure to find evidence for a large variety of subtypes in developmental dyslexia cannot be ignored and constitutes a glaring difference to studies in acquired dyslexia.
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Field: Developmental and Educational Psychology
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