Peter J. Hatcher was, until his retirement, SeniorLecturer in Psychology at the University of York. He also worked asa Senior Educational Psychologist with the Cumbria EducationAuthority. His work in the area of understanding and helpingchildren with reading difficulties master the skills of reading,with Charles Hulme and Andrew Ellis, culminated in theirgroundbreaking research (1994) that supported the Sound LinkageHypothesis. Prior to working as an Educational Psychologist, hetaught primary, secondary and tertiary-age students in special andmainstream settings in Australia, the Bahamas, Sierra Leone and theUK. Fiona J. Duff is a Research Associate at the Universityof Oxford. She was previously a research fellow at the Universityof York, where she also completed her PhD. During her studies, shewas awarded the British Psychological Society Postgraduate Awardand was seconded to the Parliamentary Office of Science andTechnology, where she authored a briefing note for parliamentarianson teaching children to read. Charles Hulme is Professor of Psychology at UniversityCollege London. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the journalScientific Studies of Reading and is currently a SeniorEditor of the Association of Psychological Science s flagshipjournal, Psychological Science. His publications includefive authored and four edited books, over 190 journal articles, aswell as several psychometric tests, including the UnitedKingdom s new standard test of reading comprehension, theYork Assessment of Reading for Comprehension.