DYSLEXIA AND LEARNING PROBLEMS

Implicit learning and dyslexia.

Several studies have reported an association between dyslexia and implicit learning deficits. It has been suggested that the weakness in implicit learning observed in dyslexic individuals may be related to sequential processing and implicit sequence learning. In the present article, we review the current literature on implicit learning and dyslexia. We describe a novel, forced-choice structural...

Dyslexia and learning computer programming

Dyslexia and learning computer programming Volume/Issue Vol 3, Issue 2 Date Tuesday, 1 June, 2004 Journal Name ITALICS Abstract This paper explores some of the issues associated with teaching computer science to students with dyslexia. Issues associated with both student learning generally and computer science specifically are considered. The accessibility of teaching materials made available t...

Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain

Serial-order Learning in Dyslexia 1 Running Head: Serial-order Learning in Dyslexia Order or Dis-order? Impaired Hebb Learning in Dyslexia Serial-order Learning in Dyslexia 2

The present study offers an integrative account which proposes that dyslexia and its various associated cognitive impairments reflect an underlying deficit in the long-term learning of serial-order information, here operationalized as Hebb repetition learning. In non-dyslexic individuals, improved immediate serial recall is typically observed when one particular sequence of items is repeated ac...

Skill, Learning and Dyslexia: a Connectionist Analysis

Two studies are reported in which a group of adolescent dyslexic children and a group of normal children matched for age and IQ undertook long-term training on a keyboard spatial task and a choice reaction task respectively. It was concluded that, following extended training, the dyslexic children had normal ‘strength’ of automatisation (as assessed by resistance to unlearning, by ease of relea...