The neural signature of orthographic-phonological binding in successful and failing reading development

► Learning to read is essentially multi-sensory in nature. ► Fluent reading development requires successful orthographic-phonological binding. ► Letter-speech sound pairs slowly develop into fully integrated audiovisual objects. ► Orthographic-phonological integration occurs in an occipitotemporal reading network. ► Dyslexic readers associate but do not adequately integrate letter?sound pairs.