Psychological Assessment of Dyslexia (eBook)

Martin Turner (Autor)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-77803-6 (ISBN)

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This book provides a refreshingly rational guide to the many issues involved in psychological assessment, taking dyslexia to be a remedial cognitive deficit. The author reviews the major tests in use for children and adults, while keeping the scientific purpose for their use firmly in view. Written primarily for assessment professionals, the book will appeal to parents and specialist teachers and all those with an interest in fair and objective methods for dealing with dyslexia.

Martin Turner is the Visualization Team Leader within Research Computing Services at the University of Manchester. He gained his PhD in the Computer Laboratory, at Cambridge University. His research in visualization and image processing has resulted in a Fellowship with British Telecom, a published book, Fractal Geometry in Digital Imaging as well as over 50 other publications, and he has supervised to completion seven successful MPhil/PhD students. Key activities and grants cover both local and nationally funded high-end visualization services as well as commercial contracts.

Inhalt

Psychological Assessment of Dyslexia 1
Contents 9
Acknowledgements 11
Chapter 1 Introduction 13
Chapter 2 The Concert of Abilities 33
Chapter 3 Describing Individual Variation 53
Chapter 4 Detecting Cognitive Anomaly 97
Chapter 5 Charting Individual Attainment 116
Chanter 6 Structures for Reporting 128
Chapter 7 Recommendations for Specialist Teaching 161
Chapter 8 Analysis of a Casework Sample 183
Chapter 9 Testing for Teachers 206
Chapter 10 Assessment of the Younger Child 230
Chapter 11 Assessment of the Dyslexic Adult 257
Chapter 12 Severity: the Case for Resources 309
Appendix 1: Key to Abbreviations for Tests Used 337
Appendix 2: A Select Bibliography of Literature on Direct Instruction 341
Appendix 3: Table of Normal Distribution Values 342
Some of the Rare Literature that Objectively Evaluates the Effectiveness of Teaching, Specialist or Otherwise 333 345
References 347
Index 365

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Logopädie
• Schlagworte: abilities • Assessment • author • Bildungswesen • Book • Cognitive • Concert • deficit • Developmental Psychology • dyslexia • Education • Entwicklungspsychologie • FAIR • firmly • Guide • Interest • Issues • Learning Disabilities • Lernstörungen, Lernschwächen • Lernstörungen, Lernschwächen • Major • many • Professionals • Psychological • Psychologie • Psychology • Purpose • Rational • remedial • Scientific • Specialist • Tests • use • Variation • View
• ISBN-10: 0-470-77803-2 / 0470778032
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-77803-6 / 9780470778036