Abstract
Dyslexia in bilinguals has been of interest for the implications it holds for the understanding of the brain and language. Several types of dissociations have been reported in the acquired dyslexias among adult bilinguals. However, reports of differing types and difficulties in the acquisition of two or more scripts among developmental dyslexics are relatively rare. This paper describes two such cases of developmental dyslexia in whom learning to read English as compared to Kannada and Hindi (two Indian scripts) were differentially affected. The implications of these findings for the understanding of reading acquisition and models of reading are discussed.
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Karanth, P. Developmental dyslexia in bilingual-biliterates. Read Writ 4, 297–306 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027153
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