Recent Explorations Into the Etiology of Reading Difficulties: Insights from Language and Cognition

Forty Years of Research in Educational Psychology in Finland: a selective overview

“…This research was related to strategy research and cognitive theory, but it dealt with the qualities of learning preferences in terms of differential psychology. Pekka Niemi, professor of psychology at Åbo Akademi University carried out a long-lasting research project on the development of different levels of reading skills (P. Niemi, 1990). The study, originating in the early 1980s, concentrated, first, on problems in learning to read, aiming at the development of process-oriented methods for the diagnosis and correction of reading difficulties.…”