Overview: Specific reading disability

yslexia ( Specific Reading Disability )

onverging evidence from a number of lines of investigation indicates that dyslexia represents a disorder within the language system nd more specifically within a particular subcomponent of that system, phonological processing. Recent advances in imaging echnology, particularly the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging, provide evidence of a neurobiological signature or dyslexia, ...

Office evaluation of specific reading disability in children.

years or more is suggestive of mental deficiency witil I.Q. below 70. There are educational achievement tests which are easy to give in tile office, and which are of some assistance in estimating 110w retarded the (lefective child is. They are especially valuable in differentiating reading disability. If it is necessary to know more accurately at what level of intelligence the defective child i...

Neurobiological studies of reading and reading disability.

UNLABELLED Evidence from neuroimaging studies, including our own, suggest that skilled word identification in reading is related to the functional integrity of two consolidated left hemisphere (LH) posterior systems: a dorsal (temporo-parietal) circuit and a ventral (occipito-temporal) circuit. This posterior system appears to be functionally disrupted in developmental dyslexia. Relative to non...

Developmental Psychobiology of Reading Disability

Disability insurance overview.

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