Description
Dr Thompson is a Chartered Psychologist as well as Principal of East Court, a school for dyslexic children, and the book provides the background to the assessment of dyslexia as well as to theoretical topics. There is a guide to further reading at the end of every chapter.
Contents:
- The Nature of Dyslexia
- Basic Psychometrics and Assessment
- Assessing the Dyslexic
- Definition and Discrepancies
- Basic Neuro-psychology
- Neuro-psychology of Dyslexia
- Models of Reading and Spelling
- Models of Memory
- Phonological and Memory
- Deficits in Dyslexia
About the Author
Dr Michael Thomson is Principal of East Court, an internationally acclaimed specialist school for dyslexia, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Applied Child Psychology at the University of Kent. He is also an executive editor of Dyslexia, the journal of the British Dyslexia Association, an Associate of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Educational Psychologist and a Fellow of the International Academy for Research into Learning Difficulties.
Book Information
ISBN 9781861562487
Author Michael Thomson
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 227g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 10mm