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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain$
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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain

Roderick Nicolson and Angela Fawcett

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780262140997

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262140997.001.0001

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Dyslexia and Development

Dyslexia and Development

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(p.131) 6 Dyslexia and Development
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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain
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Roderick I. Nicolson

Angela J. Fawcett

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The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262140997.003.0006

This chapter presents an ontogenetic causal chain analysis, which addresses whether cerebellar abnormality can prove an adequate causal explanation for the development of specific cognitive difficulties of dyslexic children. It considers how this analysis explains three criterial difficulties—reading, writing, and spelling and then considers how it addresses the Morrison/Manis criteria for a causal explanation.

Keywords:   ontogenic causal chain analysis, cerebellar abnormality, cognitive difficulties, reading, writing, spelling

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