Cognitive profiling and preliminary subtyping in Chinese developmental dyslexia.

Working memory deficits in Chinese developmental dyslexia of ethnic minority children in China

Abstract: This study examined the Dai, Wa, Jino ethnic minority Chinese developmental dyslexia children’s processing defects of linguistics cognitive level and non-linguistic cognitive level by two experiments. Experiment 1 used the pronunciation repeat, orthography true and false judgment and sentence comprehension tasks to investigate the linguistic cognitive processing defects of different e...

Developmental Dyslexia in Hong Kong: An Overview and Lessons from an International Perspective

The study of developmental dyslexia was briefly reviewed through tracing its historical origin, addressing the issues in definitions, summarizing wellaccepted epidemiological findings, and highlighting some of the recent research on the neurological and cognitive basis of dyslexia. By introducing developmental dyslexia in different languages, including the Chinese language, it was recognized th...

Understanding Chinese developmental dyslexia: Morphological awareness as a core cognitive construct

Language-universal Sensory Deficits in Developmental Dyslexia: English, Spanish, and Chinese

Studies in sensory neuroscience reveal the critical importance of accurate sensory perception for cognitive development. There is considerable debate concerning the possible sensory correlates of phonological processing, the primary cognitive risk factor for developmental dyslexia. Across languages, children with dyslexia have a specific difficulty with the neural representation of the phonolog...

Spanish developmental dyslexia: prevalence, cognitive profile, and home literacy experiences.

This study was designed to examine the prevalence, cognitive profile, and home literacy experiences in subtypes of Spanish developmental dyslexia. The subtyping procedure used comparison with chronological-age-matched and reading-level controls on reaction times and accuracy responses to high-frequency words and pseudowords. Using regression-based procedures, 8 phonological dyslexics and 16 sur...