Introduction; 1. Developmental dyslexia: a cross-linguistic perspective Ludo Verhoeven, Charles Perfetti and Kenneth Pugh; Part I. Developmental Dyslexia across Languages and Writing Systems: 2. Developmental dyslexia in English Charles Perfetti and Lindsay Harris; 3. Developmental dyslexia in French Caroline Sprenger-Charolles; 4. Developmental dyslexia in Dutch Ludo Verhoeven; 5. Developmental dyslexia in Czech-Slovakian Markéta Caravolas, Marína Mikulajová and Anna Kuchaská; 6. Developmental dyslexia in Finnish Heikki Lyytinen, Ulla Richardson and Mikko Aro; 7. Developmental dyslexia in Russian Marina Zhukova and Elena Grigorenko; 8. Developmental dyslexia in Hebrew David Share, Michal Shany and Orly Lipka; 9. Developmental dyslexia in Japanese Teiko Wydell; 10. Developmental dyslexia in Chinese Min Xu, Li Hai Tan and Charles Perfetti; Part II. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Developmental Dyslexia: 11. Behavioral precursors of developmental dyslexia Karin Landerl; 12. Neural predictors of developmental dyslexia Elizabeth Norton, John Gabrieli and Nadine Gaab; 13. Neurocognitive markers of developmental dyslexia Lan Shuai, Stephen Frost, Nicole Landi, Einar Mencl and Kenneth Pugh; 14. Role of visual attention in developmental dyslexia Andrea Facoetti, Sandro Franceschini and Simone Gori; 15. Morphological and semantic processing in developmental dyslexia S. Hélène Deacon, Xiuli Tong and Catherine Mimeau; 16. Modeling the variability of developmental dyslexia Johannes C. Ziegler, Conrad Perry and Marco Zorzi; 17. Modeling developmental dyslexia across languages and writing systems Jason Zevin; 18. Etiology of developmental dyslexia Richard K. Olson, Janice M. Keenan, Brian Byrne and Stefan Samuelsson; 19. Intergenerational transmission in developmental dyslexia Fumiko Hoeft and Cheng Wang; Epilogue; 20. Developmental dyslexia across languages and writing systems: the big picture Charles Perfetti, Kenneth Pugh and Ludo Verhoeven.