Genetics of developmental dyslexia

an examination of developmental dyslexia among iranian efl second graders

چکیده رساله/پایان نامه: این تحقیق جهت بررسی تاثیر نارسا خوانی در یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجه در میان دانش اموزان ایرانی مقطع دوم راهنمایی طراحی شده است. ده نفر از دانش اموزان ایرانی مقطع دوم راهنمایی و ده نفر از دانش اموزان غیر نارسا خوان همان مقطع برای انجام این تحقیق انتخاب شدند. تمام شرکت کنندگان توسط ازمون زبان انگلیسی ای که برای این هدف ساخته شده و متشکل از بخشهای خواندن ام...

The interface between genetics and psychology: lessons from developmental dyslexia.

Developmental dyslexia runs in families, and twin studies have confirmed that there is a substantial genetic contribution to poor reading. The way in which discoveries in molecular genetics are reported can be misleading, encouraging us to think that there are specific genes that might be used to screen for disorder. However, dyslexia is not a classic Mendelian disorder that is caused by a muta...

Developmental dyslexia.

T he term developmental dyslexia ("specific reading retardation") refers to an unexpected difficulty in reading in children and adults who otherwise possess the intelligence, motivation, and schooling considered necessary for accurate and fluent reading. The concept has had a chequered career, with debates about its definition, origin, and causes, and indeed about its validity as a distinct ent...

Developmental Dyslexia

The possible causes and correlates of such difficulty have been the focus of a great deal of theorizing since before the turn of the twentieth century, when W. Pringle Morgan (1896) described a 14-year-old boy named Percy who suffered from pronounced difficulty learning to read and spell, despite normal achievement in other academic areas. Because he could find no evidence of definitive brain i...

Developmental Dyslexia