Developmental dissociations between lexical reading and comprehension: Evidence from two cases of hyperlexia

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1238-1247

  Castles, Anne ^a   Crichton, Alison ^b   Prior, Margot ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hyperlexia; Lexical route; Nonsemantic reading; Reading development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DYSLEXIA; ECHOLALIA; HUMAN; HYPERLEXIA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

ASPERGER SYNDROME; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 77958151438     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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