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Dissociations between developmental dyslexias and attention deficits

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
We examine whether attention deficits underlie developmental dyslexia, or certain types of dyslexia, by presenting double dissociations between the two.
Limor eLukov   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental dyslexia: Genetic dissection of a complex cognitive trait [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Developmental dyslexia, a specific impairment of reading ability despite adequate intelligence and educational opportunity, is one of the most frequent childhood disorders.
DeFries, J., Fisher, S.
core   +2 more sources

Dyslexia

open access: yes, 2022
In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his age.” Yet, in spite of his intelligence, Percy had great difficulty learning to read.
Kirby, Philip, Snowling, Margaret J.
openaire   +2 more sources

Testing the Specificity of Predictors of Reading, Spelling and Maths: A New Model of the Association Among Learning Skills Based on Competence, Performance and Acquisition

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020
In a previous study (Zoccolotti et al., 2020) we examined reading, spelling, and maths skills in an unselected group of 129 Italian children attending fifth grade by testing various cognitive predictors; results showed a high degree of predictors ...
Pierluigi Zoccolotti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Phonological Awareness in Parents of Children at Risk of Literacy Difficulties: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Boost Program

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2017
BackgroundPhonological awareness is an important skill underpinning the development of early literacy. Given the central role of parents in supporting the development of children’s early literacy skills, and that poor parental phonological awareness is ...
Mark E. Boyes   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Speech perception abilities of adults with dyslexia: is there any evidence for a true deficit? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
PURPOSE: This study investigated whether adults with dyslexia show evidence of a consistent speech perception deficit by testing phoneme categorization and word perception in noise.
Hazan, V.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Evidence from ERP and Eye Movements as Markers of Language Dysfunction in Dyslexia

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2022
Developmental dyslexia is a complex reading disorder involving genetic and environmental factors. After more than a century of research, its etiology remains debated. Two hypotheses are often put forward by scholars to account for the causes of dyslexia.
Aikaterini Premeti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors of developmental dyslexia in European orthographies with varying complexity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: The relationship between phoneme awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), verbal short-term/working memory (ST/WM) and diagnostic category is investigated in control and dyslexic children, and the extent to which this depends on ...
Csépe, Valéria   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Processing of Rhythm in Speech and Music in Adult Dyslexia

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2020
Recent studies have suggested that musical rhythm perception ability can affect the phonological system. The most prevalent causal account for developmental dyslexia is the phonological deficit hypothesis.
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dyscalculia and dyslexia in Chinese children with idiopathic epilepsy: Different patterns of prevalence, comorbidity, and gender differences

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, 2022
Objective The present study aimed to examine the prevalence of dyscalculia, dyslexia, and their comorbidity rates in a large population‐based sample of children with idiopathic epilepsy (N = 2282) and a comparison sample of typically developing ...
Dazhi Cheng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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