I. Understanding reading difficulties
Dyslexia and learning difficulties : introduction
Good and poor readers
From nursery rhymes to phonological coding
What's new about phonological processes
Stages of reading development
Explaining dyslexia : recent advances in neuroscience
Explaining reading by intelligence
Reading and comprehension
Reading and comprehension : a second look
Spelling and writing
II. Remediation of reading and learning difficulties
Theory and practice
COGENT program : getting ready to read
A taste of COGENT : program modules
COGENT works : early evidence
How does reading readiness work? A taste of COGENT
PREP : a remediation program based on PASS
A taste of PREP in words and pictures
Case histories
Conceptual basis for school readiness and literacy
III. The next steps
The way forward
Integration of contemporary views on reading
Children learning math
Epilogue : new horizons in understanding reading.