This important new text is a comprehensive survey of current thinking and research on a wide range of developmental disorders. This book highlights key research on normal and typical development. It includes clinical case studies and diagrams to illustrate key concepts. It also presents a reader-friendly writing style.

This important new text is a comprehensive survey of current thinking and research on a wide range of developmental disorders. This book highlights key research on normal and typical development. It includes clinical case studies and diagrams to illustrate key concepts. It also presents a reader-friendly writing style.

This important new text is a comprehensive survey of current thinking and research on a wide range of developmental disorders. The book also highlights key research on normal and typical development.

Clinical case studies and diagrams are used to illustrate key concepts, and a reader?friendly writing style make this text ideal for advanced undergraduate or postgraduate students of psychology and other academic and clinical audiences, including speech and language therapists.

Margaret J. Snowling is Professor of Psychology at the University of York and a qualified clinical psychologist. Widely recognized as an expert in the field of children's reading and language difficulties, she was awarded the British Psychological Society Presidents' Award 2003 for distinguished contributions to psychological knowledge and the Samuel Torrey Orton award of the International Dyslexia Association for outstanding contributions to the Scientific Understanding of Dyslexia. She currently holds a British Academy Research Readership and is President-Elect of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Charles Hulme is Professor of Psychology at the University of York. His research is on memory, reading and language processes and their development. He was the joint recipient of the Dina Fietelson Award of the International Reading Association for research on reading intervention, 1998. He is currently editor-in-chief of Scientific Studies of Reading, the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.