All About Language

Excerpted from: All About Language

Edited by: Elena L. Grigorenko, Peggy McCardle Ph.D., MPH, Yuri Shtyrov series

Contents

• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• The Dyslexia Foundation and the Extraordinary Brain Series
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 All About Language: Science, Theory, and Practice: An Overview and Introduction to the Volume
• II Typical Language Development (Spoken and Written)
  • 4 Building a Lexicon
  • 5 Reading in Grades 2 and 3: Eye Tracking and Neuropsychological Analysis
  • 6 Orthographic Processing and Reading
• III Atypical Oral Language
  • 7 Longitudinal Study of Language and Speech of Twins: New Insights Into Possible Causal Pathways
  • 8 Stability and Change in Developmental Language Disorder
  • 9 Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Optimal Outcomes Can Tell Us About Neural Plasticity
• IV Atypical Reading Development (Dyslexia)
  • 10 The Role of Executive Functions in Reading Development, Reading Disability, and Intervention Response
  • 11 Predicting Response to Reading Disabilities Intervention
  • 12 Identification of Disabilities in Spanish-Speaking Children in English-Speaking Contexts
• V Language, Education, Disability, and Society
  • 14 Using Technology to Bring Treatments to Families Affected by Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Their Communities
  • 15 Identification, Assessment, and Treatment of Reading Difficulties: Learning From Examination of U.S. and U.K. Practices
• VI Finale
  • 16 Future Directions for Research and Practice: Integrating Language Development With Reading and Learning Disabilities

About the Editors

Elena L. Grigorenko, Ph.D.

Head of the Laboratory of Translational Sciences of Human Development, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Professor of Psychology, University of Houston, Texas.

Yury Shtyrov, Ph.D.

Professor, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Institute for Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University/Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

Peggy McCardle, Ph.D., M.P.H.

President/Consultant, Peggy McCardle Consulting, LLC, and Affiliated Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut.

About the Contributors

• Leonard Abbeduto, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis
• Olga V. Burenkova, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics (TIMES), University of Houston
• Jason Zevin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Preface

This volume is one of two, both based on Extraordinary Brain Series (EBS) Symposia, and thus both resulting in EBS edited volumes. It turns out to be a wonderful convergence of ideas and information on the underpinnings of reading and dyslexia. The chapters in this volume sample the current state of knowledge regarding the evolution and manifestation of human language. The symposium addressed issues like language evolution, typical development, disorders, and bi-/multilingualism. The volume is structured in six sections, and each section ends with integrative commentary by a known scholar in that topical area.

Acknowledgments

Many dedicated organizations and individuals contributed to this volume, including the University of St. Petersburg and the Dyslexia Foundation. We acknowledge the authors and practitioners involved in the symposium, who contributed chapters and engaged in discussions.

CHAPTER 1

All About Language: Science, Theory, and Practice

(Неделя языка: наука, теория, практика) This volume is the collaborative outgrowth of Extraordinary Brain Symposium XVI, held in St. Petersburg, Russia. The meeting included various language-related topics with targeted speakers in language evolution, genetic and environmental etiology, typical development, and language disorders. The chapters address the biological underpinnings of language phylogeny and ontogeny, and present insights into typical and atypical development in oral and written language.