ABSTRACT
Reading therapies are a relatively recent development in aphasia despite the dyslexias providing the initial impetus for developments in cognitive neuropsychology in the 1960s and 1970s. The influence of the developmental literature is probably seen more in reading than other processing domains. The development of normal reading skills and the management of developmental dyslexia have informed a number of studies reported in this chapter (for examples of discussion of reading models in the acquisition of literacy, see Chall, 1983; Frith, 1986; Gough, 1996; Metsala & Ehri, 1998; Shankweiler & Liberman, 1989; Share & Stanovich, 1995).
