Vender - Disentangling dyslexia : phonological and processing deficit in developmental dyslexia

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Maria Vender is a Postdoc Researcher and Adjunct Professor at the University of Verona. Her research interests concern the investigation of the linguistic and cognitive deficits in learning and language disabilities, focusing on the relationship between dyslexia, bilingualism and foreign language learning.

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Beyond the well-known reading and spelling difficulties, dyslexic individuals exhibit marked phonological disorders, poor lexical retrieval and problems in the comprehension and production of grammatical structures that are particularly expensive in terms of processing costs. To account for these difficulties, the author presents an original hypothesis, proposing that dyslexia is related to a working memory inefficiency, affecting in particular the subjects phonological skills and executive functions. The results of four experimental protocols, assessing dyslexic childrens working memory and their ability to interpret scalar implicatures, negative sentences and pronominal expressions, are presented and discussed in this volume. Consistent with the hypothesis outlined in this book, the results of the four studies show that dyslexics underperformed in comparison to age-matched controls and even to younger children in tasks requiring good phonological and processing abilities.

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Maria Vender

Disentangling Dyslexia

Phonological and Processing Deficit in Developmental Dyslexia

PETER LANG

Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt am Main New York Oxford Wien

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