Foundations of Literacy
- 1st Edition, Volume 68 - July 2, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Jeffrey J. Lockman, Jessica Church-Lang
- Language: English
Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 68, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely update… Read more
Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 68, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.
- Contains chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the areas of child development and behavior
- Presents a high-quality and wide range of topics covered by well-known professionals
Professionals, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in developmental psychology and related fields (e.g., clinical psychology, education, nursing, social work, early childhood education, child policy)
Some of the chapters in this volume:
- Orthographic learning as the building block of literacy development
- Reading and writing in English as a Foreign Language: Spanish children with and without dyslexia
- Electrophysiological indices of reading intervention response: A systematic review
- Audiovisual integration and cognitive control supporting reading fluency
- Brain correlates of early writing development: The foundational role of production tasks in early childhood
- Contributions of the home math environment to young children’s emerging math skills
- Understanding the Relations between Cognition and Academic Skills in the Context of Instruction
- Bridging the Gap across Research and Practice: The Science of Reading in Contexts
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 68
- Published: July 2, 2025
- Language: English
JL
Jeffrey J. Lockman
Professor Jeffrey J. Lockman got his Ph.D at the University of Minnesota. His research interests center on perception-action and cognitive development. In his recent work, he has been studying the development of tool use in children and how it might be related to the object manipulation skills of infants. Additionally, he has been conducting work on spatial cognition in children, focusing on how children code the location of objects and object features.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USARead Foundations of Literacy on ScienceDirect