• Can we read letters? Reflections on fundamental issues in reading and dyslexia research 

      Tønnessen, Finn Egil; Uppstad, Per Henning (Book, 2015-01)
      Internationally there has been a major increase in activity within reading and dyslexia research over the past three or four decades. This is a reasonable development given that the importance of having good reading ...
    • Development of motor-life-skills: variations in children at risk for motor difficulties from the toddler age to preschool age 

      Moser, Thomas; Reikerås, Elin Kirsti Lie; Tønnessen, Finn Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03)
      This article explores variations in development of everyday motor-life-skills in 661 children (329 girls and 332 boys) in Norwegian kindergartens of ages 2:9 (T1) and 4:9 (T2) years:months. The particular focus is on ...
    • Relations between motor skills and language skills in toddlers and preschool-aged children 

      Reikerås, Elin Kirsti Lie; Moser, Thomas; Tønnessen, Finn Egil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01)
      The purpose of this longitudinal study is to (1) examine the relations between language and motor-life skills in toddlers and preschool-aged children (n = 646) in real-life situations; and (2) to explore how the level of ...
    • Screening tests of reading: Time for a rethink? 

      Walgermo, Bente R.; Uppstad, Per Henning; Lundetræ, Kjersti; Tønnessen, Finn Egil; Solheim, Oddny Judith (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)
      Som en del av det nasjonale kvalitetsvurderingssystemet for grunnopplæringen (NKVS) i norsk utdanning har vi i dag forskjellige leseprøver med ulike formål og utforminger for bruk i det 13-årige skoleløpet. I denne artikkelen ...
    • The ABC of reading : perspectives on the alphabetic principle 

      Uppstad, Per Henning; Tønnessen, Finn Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      An alphabetic writing system is a system in which words consist of individual letters that corre-spond to spoken-language units at a similar level of analysis. The systematic relationships between units of these two systems ...
    • The notion of phonology in dyslexia research : cognitivism - and beyond 

      Tønnessen, Finn Egil; Uppstad, Per Henning (Journal article, 2007)
      Phonology has been a central concept in the scientific study of dyslexia over the past decades. Despite its central position, however, it is a concept with no precise definition or status. The present article investigates ...
    • The status of the concept of 'phoneme' in psycholinguistics 

      Tønnessen, Finn Egil; Uppstad, Per Henning (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
    • What are skills? Some fundamental reflections 

      Tønnessen, Finn Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      When the concept of ‘skill’ is used in reading and writing research or more generally in linguis-tic research, it is rarely made the subject of detailed and precise definitions or reflections. The present article is a ...