Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Second Edition: A Neuropsychological Framework,   ISBN:9781593857141

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Pennington's first edition on diagnosing learning disorders was showing its age, yet still the best one-volume summary on the neuropsychological underpinnings of learning disorders. This is a thorough revision and update of that earlier work. My office has owned it for about a week and I am not yet finished, but can already see that it is a major update, equivalent to writing an entirely new book.

Like the first edition, this volume starts by offering a general neuropsychological breakdown of learning disorders and questions about subtype analysis. Where the first edition then described research evidence for five types of learning disorder, this edition covers eight. Each includes summaries of relevant and recent research substantiating the cognitive problems that undergird each of the types of learning disorder. Pennington describes his own program of research a good deal, which is natural, but also includes references to competing hypotheses, such as the generalized cerebellar skill-deficit hypothesis of the syndrome commonly known as dyslexia.

A great summary for neuropsychologists who work with children.