ABSTRACT

This chapter is concerned with comprehension processes in cases of developmental dyslexia. I first outline a new approach to the investigation of reading disability. This involves a merging of the experimental techniques of cognitive psychology with the single case techniques of cognitive neuropsychology. It permits the construction of more precise and differentiated cognitive descriptions of individual cases of dyslexia than has previously been possible. My aim in the later part of the chapter is to consider how the methods of individual cognitive analysis may be extended to semantic processing. It should then be possible to discuss the relationship between semantic processes and the more peripheral components of the reading process.