The sensory basis of reading problems.

Journal article

Learning to read is much more difficult than learning to speak. Most children teach themselves to speak with little or no difficulty. Yet a few years later when they come to learn to read they have to be taught how to do it; they do not pick up reading by themselves. This is because we speak in words and syllables, but we write in phonemes. Syllables do not naturally break down into the sounds of letters and letter units (i.e., phonemes) because these do not correspond to physiologically dist...

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Authors: Stein, J

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Developmental neuropsychology
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 509-534
• Publication date: 2001-01-01
• DOI: 10.1207/s15326942dn2002_4
• EISSN: 1532-6942
• ISSN: 8756-5641
• Language: English
• Keywords: Visual Perception; Dyslexia; Auditory Perceptual Disorders; Perceptual Disorders; Brain Mapping; Auditory Pathways; Child; Humans; Neurons; Cerebral Cortex; Visual Pathways