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Understanding dyslexia
Understanding dyslexia

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Acknowledgements

This free course is an adapted extract from the course DSE212 Exploring psychology, which is currently out of presentation.

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Texts

Section 1.3 Case Study: extracted from Faludy, T. and Faludy, A. (1996) A Little Edge of Darkness, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Figures

Figure 1 Dancey, C.P. and Reidy, J. (2002) Statistics Without Maths for Psychology: Using SPSS for Windows™ , 2nd edn, Pearson Education Limited. Copyright © Pearson Education Limited 2002, reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Limited; Figure 2: Frith, U. (1999) 'Paradoxes in the definition of dyslexia', Dyslexia, vol.5, no.4, December 1999. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Reproduced by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Figure 4: Reprinted with permission from 'Human brain: left-right asymmetries in temporal speech region' by N. Geschwind and W. Levitsky, Science, 161 pp. 186–7. Copyright © 1968 by American Association for the Advancement in Science.

Tables

Table 1 A03. Adult Dyslexia Checklist, 1994 http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk [accessed 18 October 2006], British Dyslexia Association.

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