Mind, Brain and Education in Reading Disorders (Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development) by Kurt W. Fischer, Jane Holmes Bernstein, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Mind, Brain and Education in Reading Disorders (Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development)



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Mind, Brain and Education in Reading Disorders (Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development) Kurt W. Fischer, Jane Holmes Bernstein, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Language: English
Page: 352
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0521854792, 9780511279294
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Book Description

The development of reading is a key topic in establishing meaningful links between brain sciences and education. This book illuminates why reading disorders have been hard to identify and what the future holds for relating mind, brain and education to understanding reading difficulties.

About the Author

Kurt W. Fischer is Charles Warland Bigelow Professor of Education and Human Development and Director of the Mind, Brian and Education Program in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is founding president of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society and founding editor of the new journal Mind, Brain and Education.

Jane Holmes Bernstein is a developmental neuropsychologist who divides her time between teaching, writing and research responsibilities at the Children's Hospital Boston and the establishment of a National Child Development Program in Trinidad and Tobago.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang studies the neuroscience of emotion and its relation to cognitive, linguistic and social development at the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California. She recently received her doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.