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The Connections between Language and Reading Disabilities: Current Findings and Future Directions
2003 conference
Profiles of Participants

James R. Booth

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Assistant Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Northwestern University



Research Interests:

Developmental trajectories and individual differences in the functional neuroanatomy of cognitive processes in typical and atypocal populations, including children with reading disability, pediatric lesions and ADHD.


Development of orthographic, phonologic and semantic representations.
The role of memory in the development of sentence comprehension.
Selective attention and response inhibition.

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Brian Byrne

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Professor of Psychology
University of New England
Australia




Research Interests:

Language and literacy development


Dyslexia


Genetic and environmental factors

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