Reading Development and Disorders: An Introduction (BPS Textbooks in Psychology)

Kate Cain, D.Phil., is a Reader in the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on the development of language comprehension in children and she has a particular interest in the cognitive and language-related skill deficits that lead to comprehension problems. To date, she has published widely on language and reading development in journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, and Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Reseach, and has written 15 book chapters and co-edited Children's Comprehension Problems in Oral and Written Language: a Cognitive Perspective (with Jane Oakhill, 2007). She is Associate Editor for the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders and the Journal of Research in Reading.Cain, Kate is the author of 'Reading Development and Disorders: An Introduction (BPS Textbooks in Psychology)', published 2010 under ISBN 9781405151559 and ISBN 1405151552.