Gender ratios for reading difficulties

Reading difficulties and arithmetic difficulties

Learning difficulties in reading and arithmetic are among the most commonly noted in school-age learners, with around 5% seriously affected in each skill. Reading appears to involve a brain network that has little overlap with that for basic number processing, and the candidate genes for reading disability seem to be quite different from those for dyscalculia. Nevertheless, there is evidence th...

Reading difficulties in children.

Children’s Reading Comprehension Difficulties

Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading. Everyone agrees that reading comprehension is not a simple matter of recognizing individual words, or even of understanding each individual word as our eyes pass over it. All models of comprehension recognize the need for readers to build up a mental representation of text, a process that requires integration across a range of sources of informatio...

Reading Difficulties in Children

Optometric Correlates of Reading Difficulties

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