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Advanced Topics in Reading and its Disorders - COGS741
This unit examines reading and how it can go wrong. More specifically, it considers the cognitive processes involved in reading, how these processes develop with practice, and what occurs if these processes fail to develop or are damaged (eg, developmental dyslexia and acquired dyslexia). This unit covers models and theories of the mature and developing reading systems; different types of developmental and acquired dyslexia; proximal (immediate) and distal (distant) causes of the dyslexia; the effects of different types of training on dyslexia; the assessment of reading skills; and the diagnosis of different types of dyslexia.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | S2 Day - Session 2, North Ryde, Day |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Genevieve McArthur |
| Prerequisites: |
Admission to MRes |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Cognitive Science Faculty of Human Sciences |
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