Reading Development and Difficulties

Key features include:

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• An introduction to the important issues in reading research and the skills involved in reading words and understanding text, from the point of view of both a beginner and a skilled reader
  
• A consideration of the similarities and differences between written and spoken language, and the advantages and disadvantages of different methodological approaches
  
• An examination of how failures in reading comprehension skills can create difficulties and disorders
  
• A consideration of the implications of this research for the teaching of reading and the diagnosis and treatment of reading difficulties

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