Reading difficulties and arithmetic difficulties

نویسندگان

  • Brian Butterworth
  • Philip S. Dale
  • Mabel L. Rice
  • Nick Ellis
چکیده

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 that dyslexia and dyscalculia co-occur more often than would be expected by chance if they depended on completely independent capacities. Here I consider possible explanations for this paradox.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009