Alison Kevan, phd
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
PhD - Psychology - Australian National University, 2009
Research Interests
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a developmental disorder that comprises a range of language-related deficits, including poor reading, writing and speech production skills. Dyslexia is biological in origin and tends to run in families, with recent research suggesting that individuals inherit the genetic links for dyslexia from one or indeed both of their parents.
Current Research
I am currently undertaking research to determine whether the visual deficits that are observed in dyslexic readers are present in these children before they experience reading difficulties. This research may therefore identify how these deficits contribute to reading failure.
Publications
Spelling and reading: using visual sensitivity to explore shared or separate orthographic representations.
Pammer K, Connell E, Kevan A.
Perception. 2010;39(3):387-406.PMID: 20465174
Predicting early reading skills from pre-reading measures of dorsal stream functioning.
Kevan A, Pammer K.
Neuropsychologia. 2009 Dec;47(14):3174-81. Epub 2009 Aug 3.PMID: 19651148
Visual deficits in pre-readers at familial risk for dyslexia.
Kevan A, Pammer K.
Vision Res. 2008 Dec;48(28):2835-9. Epub 2008 Oct 30.PMID: 18929591
Making the link between dorsal stream sensitivity and reading.
Kevan A, Pammer K.
Neuroreport. 2008 Mar 5;19(4):467-70.PMID: 18287948
The contribution of visual sensitivity, phonological processing, and nonverbal IQ to children's reading
K Pammer, A Kevan - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2007 - informaworld.com
