Dyslexia in bilingualism : A case study of an English-Norwegian bilingual child with developmental dyslexia

Abstract

This study investigates the interactions between dyslexia and bilingualism, and aims to observe how dyslexia presents itself in a bilingual individual. The importance of language similarity, orthographic transparency and cognate effect is investigated through a set experiments and analysis of dyslexia assessment results. Data for this study is collected by means of qualitative(questionnaire and dyslexia assessment)and quantitative (RAN and word spotting tasks)methods based on a case study of an English-Norwegian bilingual with developmental dyslexia.