Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: toward an understanding of the neuropsychology of language, reading and spelling / Ursula Kirk
  • Learning for language and language for learning / Martha Bridge Denckla
  • Development of the cerebral mechanisms for language / Colwyn Trevarthen
  • Getting ready to talk: the infant's acquisition of motor capability for speech / Ronald J. Baken
  • Perceptual prerequisites for language development / Paula Tallal, Rachel Stark
  • Neural mechanisms underlying the processing of speech information in infants and adults: suggestion of differences in development and structure from electrophysiological research / Dennis L. Molfese.
  • Interrelationships in the brain organization of language-related behaviors: evidence form electrical stimulation mapping / George A. Ojemann
  • Developmental language disorders: nosologic considerations / Isabelle Rapin, Doris A. allen
  • Developmentally dyslexic brain and the written language skills of children with one hemisphere / Maureen Dennis
  • Reading and spelling disabilities: a developmental neuropsychological perspective / Byron P. Rourke
  • Organization of visual, phonological, and motor strategies in learning to read and to spell / Lynette Bradley.