1. Foreword

   EditorialNotes Pages: ix - ix

2. The Samuel T. Orton award for 1983 Presented by the Orton Dyslexia Society to Eleanor Thurston Hall

   • William Ellis

   Announcement Pages: xi - xvi

3. Alexia and the neural basis of reading

   • D. Frank Benson

   Part I Medical And Educational Studies Pages: 1 - 13

4. Confessions of a schoolman—On dyslexia and laterality

   • Che Kan Leong

   Part I Medical And Educational Studies Pages: 15 - 27

5. A new chemotherapeutic investigation: Piracetam effects on dyslexia

   • Christopher H. Chase
   • R. Larry Schmitt
   • Paula Tallal

   Part I Medical And Educational Studies Pages: 29 - 48

6. Four-year follow-up study of language impaired children

   • Rachel E. Stark
   • Lynne E. Bernstein
   • Hugh Catts

   Part I Medical And Educational Studies Pages: 49 - 68

7. Dyslexia and spatial thinking

   • Arthur L. Benton

   Part I Medical And Educational Studies Pages: 69 - 85

8. Naming, reading, and the dyslexias: A longitudinal overview

   • Maryanne Wolf

   Part I Medical And Educational Studies Pages: 87 - 115

9. Longitudinal prediction and prevention of early reading difficulty

   • Virginia A. Mann

   Part I Medical And Educational Studies Pages: 117 - 136

10. The question of linguistic anomaly in developmental dyslexia

    • Mary-Louise Kean

    Part I Medical And Educational Studies Pages: 137 - 151

11. The search for subtypes of specific reading disability: Reflections from a cognitive perspective

    • Maureen W. Lovett

    Part II Searching For Subtypes Pages: 153 - 178

12. Letter processing in dyslexic subgroups

    • Kees P. van den Bos

    Part II Searching For Subtypes Pages: 179 - 193

13. Patterns of inverted reading and subgroups in dyslexia

    • Steen Larsen
    • Paul Parlenvi

    Part II Searching For Subtypes Pages: 195 - 203

14. Subtyping of reading disorders: Implications for remediation

    • Donald G. Doehring

    Part II Searching For Subtypes Pages: 205 - 216

15. Applying cognitive psychology to educational practice: The mind of the reading teacher

    • Robert Calfee

    Part III Teachers And The Process Of Teaching Pages: 217 - 240

16. Types of writings found in the early levels of basal reading programs: Preprimers through second grade readers

    • James Flood
    • Diane Lapp
    • Sharon Flood

    Part III Teachers And The Process Of Teaching Pages: 241 - 255

17. Prevention: Federal impact on preschool handicapped programs

    • Jean C. Ramage

    Part III Teachers And The Process Of Teaching Pages: 257 - 269

18. Analysis of written language of a language learning disabled (dyslexic) college student and instructional implications

    • Leonore Ganschow

    Part III Teachers And The Process Of Teaching Pages: 271 - 284

19. A clinical model for treatment of dyslexia

    • Deborah L. Levy
    • William Ellis

    Part III Teachers And The Process Of Teaching Pages: 285 - 296

20. Dyslexia-my “Invisible handicap”

    • Thomas S. Mautner

    Part IV Personal Perspectives Pages: 297 - 311

21. Living with dyslexia: One parent’s experience

    • Leonard J. Hartwig

    Part IV Personal Perspectives Pages: 313 - 318

22. The brain of a learning-disabled individual

    • Norman Geschwind

    Part IV Personal Perspectives Pages: 319 - 327