Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia across Scripts

Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Chinese

Understanding how the mappings between orthography and phonology in alphabetic languages are learned, represented and processed has been enhanced by the cognitive neuropsychological investigation of patients with acquired reading and writing disorders. During the past decade, this methodology has been extended to understanding reading and writing in Chinese leading to new insights about languag...

The effectiveness of neurofeedback treatment on students’ dyslexia and dysgraphia

This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Neurofeedback training method on students with dyslexia and dysgraphia disorders. This study was conducted with quasi-experimental design with pretest and posttest control group. The population of the study was primary school-aged students in Bojnord city who received diagnostic of dyslexia and dysgraphia. Thirty participants were chosen by purpo...

Lexical learning in developmental dyslexia/dysgraphia

The occasional "independence" of dyslexia and dysgraphia from dysphasia.

In spite of the opportunity afforded by neurological cases for the study of the association of reading, writing, and spoken speech disorders, there is little agreement on the question whether these disabilities may exist independently or are necessarily parts of a general language disturbance. Where a disorder of reading has been found to be the major disability it has been accepted by some aut...

A teacher with progressive headache, dyslexia, dysgraphia and seizure

A 56-year-old female teacher presented to Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran, with history of progressive headache, difficulty to read and write (dyslexia and dysgraphia), and seizure since 3 months ago. Neurological examination demonstrated mild bilateral papilledema and left side Babinski sign. The exam was otherwise normal. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed (Figure 1). 1What ...