**Meet the editor**

Dr Wichian Sittiprapaporn is a Thai Cognitive Neuroscientist who has published in many national and international publications as well as reviewed articles for reputed national and international indexed journals. He was awarded Scholar of the Month for July 2009 for his interdisciplinary research and received educational leadership award by the Guild of Independent Scholars,

The Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences. Dr Wichian Sittiprapaporn was born in Udornthani, Thailand in 1970. He received B.A. (Hons.) (English) and M.A. (Linguistics) from Srinakharinwirot University and Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in Neurosciences from the Institute of Science and Technology for Research and Development, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2002 and became a postdoctoral fellow at the Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CCNC), Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, in 2006. After working as a lecturer in Neurosciences at the Neuro-Behavioural Biology Center, Institute of Science and Technology for Research and Development, Mahidol University, from 2003 to 2005, he was invited to join the Music Therapy Division, College of Music, Mahidol University, Bangkok, in 2008. In January 2010, he joined the College of Music, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham and currently holds a lecturer position in Faculty of Medicine, Mahasarakham University and College of Research Methodology and Cognitive Science, Burapha University, Thailand. His current research interests include Cognitive Neurosciences, Biomedical Image and Signal Processing of Human Brain Function in Music Perception and Cognition.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Language Disabilities:** 

**Part 1 Learning Disabilities 1** 

George S. Mouzakitis

Chapter 2 **Achievement Gaps: Learning Disabilities,** 

Ann McColl and Robert Audette

**Myths and Misconceptions vs. Reality 3** 

Bob Algozzine, Erik Porfeli, Chuang Wang,

Chapter 4 **Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Writing Learning Disabilities 49**  Celestino Rodríguez, Paloma González-Castro,

Rebeca Cerezo and David Álvarez

Chapter 5 **Reading and Writing Achievement Tests** 

Makiko Kaga and Masumi Inagaki

Chapter 6 **Interventions in Specific Learning Disabilities** 

Chapter 7 **Preventing Children's Writing Difficulties Through Specific Intervention in the Home 105** 

**Through Families 87** 

**Community Capital, and School Composition 19** 

Chapter 3 **Dyslexia in Hong Kong: Challenges and Opportunities 31** 

**Part 2 Diagnosis and Interventions of Learning Disabilities 67** 

Kiyomi Yatabe, Takaaki Goto, Katsumi Watanabe,

Patricia Robledo-Ramón and Jesús-Nicasio García-Sánchez

Patricia Robledo-Ramón and Jesús-Nicasio García-Sánchez

**for Assessing Orthographical and Phonological Impairments of Japanese Children with Developmental Disorders 69** 

Chi-man Tsui, Cecilia W. P. Li-Tsang and Pui Yee Grace Lung
