Kognitive and metacognitive approaches to dyslexia: education and counselling

Abstract

The book focuses on reading comprehension in the population of children and adolescents with dyslexia. Furthermore, it also considers individuals who faces reading comprehension difficulties which apparently stem from other sources than dyslexia.

It presents state of art, current assessment tools and intervention approaches which follow the so called cognitive approach toward education. Particular chapter also include partial research data.

Keywords

• Dyslexia
• cognition
• metacognition
• assessment
• counselling