Topic
How do children learn to read, how does this depend on the language, and what kind of model will best describe this process?
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Speaker
Professor David Share received his PhD in Education and Psychology from Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa and a member of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities in Haifa, Israel. His field of research is the early development of reading, with an emphasis on variation between children in reading ability, and with special attention to reading difficulties (dyslexia) and the role of writing system variation in early reading acquisition.
Professor Share is internationally renowned for his pioneering studies and bold theoretical proposals, in particular the self-teaching hypothesis for orthographic learning and his devastating critique of relying on research conducted in the English language with its unusually inconsistent orthography.
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