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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword Dyslexia: A personal view -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part 1 Phonological skills, reading and dyslexia -- Chapter 1 Dyslexia: The Phonological Deficit Hypothesis -- Chapter 2 Reading skills, strategies and their degree of tractability in dyslexia -- Chapter 3 Automaticity deficits in word reading -- Part 2 Visual skill, motor shill and speed of processing -- Chapter 4 Visual deficits in dyslexia: Evidence and implications -- Chapter 5 A visual defect in dyslexies? -- Chapter 6 Speed of processing, motor skill, automaticity and dyslexia -- Part 3 Towards the underlying causes of dyslexia -- Chapter 7 A proposed taxonomy and some consequences -- Chapter 8 Comparison of deficit severity across skills: Towards a taxonomy for dyslexia -- Author Index -- Subject Index