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The Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor skills,
Handwriting, and Spelling explores the potentially controversial
field of early literacy education. It aims to offer scholars and
practitioners an analysis of how and why handwriting skills benefit
early literacy learning, especially spelling acquisition, and how
this can enrich experiences for children and educators. Offering
global perspectives from the field, the volume integrates current
theories with up-to-date research and practice, revealing how we
can best support children’s early literacy learning with
handwriting and visual-motor skills interventions. Key topics
covered include: The fundamentals of handwriting skills and
literacy acquisition; Global literacy and spelling; Dysgraphia,
handwriting difficulties, and dyslexia; Spelling and writing in the
digital age; Home learning environment and spelling; Instruction
and interventions for spelling and writing. This comprehensive
survey will be essential reading for scholars and students of
developmental psychology, education, and literacy research.
Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and ADHD: A Global Perspective
uniquely incorporates dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD into one
volume, offering practical advice on how to manage each of these
disorders. McBride combines a solid research base with interviews
with specialists in learning disabilities, as well as parents,
teachers, and students with personal knowledge of each difficulty
from six continents. The innovative cross-cultural focus of the
book is emphasized in the introduction, which is followed by one
chapter each on the basics of each of these learning difficulties
and another three chapters on their remediation. The book goes on
to cover topics such as comorbidities across learning or other
difficulties, learning of multiple languages, facilitating
self-esteem, and enhancing reading comprehension and writing
composition in the face of dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD.
Appendices with short, practical tips on learning, multi-media
resources, and ways to test and train cognitive-linguistic skills
are included as an additional resource. Coping with Dyslexia,
Dysgraphia and ADHD: A Global Perspective is intended for
practitioners, teachers, parents, and those with any or all of
these learning difficulties. University or postgraduate students
who wish to understand more about dyslexia, dysgraphia, and/or ADHD
will also benefit from the clear analysis. With this book, the
reader will not only come to understand the fundamental nature of
these learning difficulties, but will also get to know the people
whose lives are so deeply affected by them.
Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and ADHD: A Global Perspective
uniquely incorporates dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD into one
volume, offering practical advice on how to manage each of these
disorders. McBride combines a solid research base with interviews
with specialists in learning disabilities, as well as parents,
teachers, and students with personal knowledge of each difficulty
from six continents. The innovative cross-cultural focus of the
book is emphasized in the introduction, which is followed by one
chapter each on the basics of each of these learning difficulties
and another three chapters on their remediation. The book goes on
to cover topics such as comorbidities across learning or other
difficulties, learning of multiple languages, facilitating
self-esteem, and enhancing reading comprehension and writing
composition in the face of dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD.
Appendices with short, practical tips on learning, multi-media
resources, and ways to test and train cognitive-linguistic skills
are included as an additional resource. Coping with Dyslexia,
Dysgraphia and ADHD: A Global Perspective is intended for
practitioners, teachers, parents, and those with any or all of
these learning difficulties. University or postgraduate students
who wish to understand more about dyslexia, dysgraphia, and/or ADHD
will also benefit from the clear analysis. With this book, the
reader will not only come to understand the fundamental nature of
these learning difficulties, but will also get to know the people
whose lives are so deeply affected by them.
In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book,
Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure
the process of becoming literate. Taking an ecological and
distinctively cross-cultural perspective, the book looks at reading
and writing development and impairment across a range of languages,
scripts, and contexts. The book covers issues including: The
importance of phonological sensitivity for learning to read and to
write The first units, or building blocks, of literacy learning in
different scripts such as Chinese, English, Korean Hangul, Hebrew,
Hindi and Arabic The role of visual processing in reading and
writing skills How the latest research can inform the teaching of
reading An overview of our understanding of dyslexia, including
recent neuroscientific research The developmental challenges in
becoming biliterate What is special about writing for beginners and
later for comprehensive writing Basics of reading comprehension
Children's Literacy Development, Second Edition is a timely and
important contribution to our understanding of literacy around the
world. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is the only
book available that provides an overview of how children learn to
read and write in different languages, and will be essential
reading for all students of Developmental Psychology, Educational
Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Speech Therapy.
In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book,
Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure
the process of becoming literate. Taking an ecological and
distinctively cross-cultural perspective, the book looks at reading
and writing development and impairment across a range of languages,
scripts, and contexts. The book covers issues including: The
importance of phonological sensitivity for learning to read and to
write The first units, or building blocks, of literacy learning in
different scripts such as Chinese, English, Korean Hangul, Hebrew,
Hindi and Arabic The role of visual processing in reading and
writing skills How the latest research can inform the teaching of
reading An overview of our understanding of dyslexia, including
recent neuroscientific research The developmental challenges in
becoming biliterate What is special about writing for beginners and
later for comprehensive writing Basics of reading comprehension
Children's Literacy Development, Second Edition is a timely and
important contribution to our understanding of literacy around the
world. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is the only
book available that provides an overview of how children learn to
read and write in different languages, and will be essential
reading for all students of Developmental Psychology, Educational
Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Speech Therapy.
The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education
offers a pioneering overview of early literacy provision in
different parts of the world and brings together interdisciplinary
research evidence on effective literacy teaching to inform current
and future practice and policy of early literacy. From the problem
of identification of literacy difficulties in a particular learning
context to supporting the provision of early literacy through
digital media, the handbook deals with the major concerns and
newest areas of interest in literacy research. With an
international and future vision, it provides an accessible guide to
the main debates and future trends in the global field of early
literacy, and informs academics, policy-makers, practitioners,
educators and students about innovative early literacy research
methods and instruction. The three sections and 30 ground-breaking
chapters reflect a conceptual framework of questions asked by
scholars and educators interested in looking beyond traditional
definitions of literacy. Part I provides contemporary insights
collected by internationally renowned scholars on what literacy is,
and what it can offer to young children in the twenty-first
century. Part II is a collection of detailed portraits of 14
countries, regions or language communities, and focuses on early
literacy provision, practice and policy from across the world. Part
III outlines key interventions and research-endorsed practices
designed to support home-school connections and children's reading
and writing skills, as well as vocabulary, phonological awareness
and narrative abilities, with examples drawn from various home,
school and community environments. All chapters promote discussion,
critical analysis and questions for reflection and are written in
jargon-free language in an easy-to use themed format. This handbook
is an indispensable reference guide for practising teachers and
student teachers, especially those undertaking postgraduate
qualifications, as well as early literacy researchers,
policy-makers and school-based literacy leaders.
This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara
orthography and how they may affect literacy development and
problems along with the implications for assessment and
instruction. Even though akshara orthography is used by more than a
billion people, there is an urgent need for a systematic attempt to
bring the features, research findings, and future directions of
akshara together in a coherent volume. We hope that this volume
will bridge that gap. Akshara is used in several Indic languages,
each calling it by a slightly different name, for example
'aksharamu', in Telugu, 'akshara' in Kannada, and 'akshar' in
Hindi. It is the Bhrami-derived orthography used across much of the
Indian subcontinent. There is a growing body of research on the
psycholinguistic underpinnings of learning to read akshara, and the
emerging perspective is that akshara, even though classified as
alphasyllabaries, abugida, and semi-syllabic writing systems, is
neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Rather, akshara orthography is
unique and deserves to be a separate classification and needs
further investigation relating to literacy acquisition in akshara.
The chapters in this volume, written by leading authors in the
field, will inform the reader of the current research on akshara in
a coherent and systematic way.
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