M. S. Thambirajah is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist working in Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust. He is the author of Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Radcliffe Publishing 2007) and Psychological Basis of Psychiatry (Elsevier 2005) and co-author of Understanding School Refusal (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007). Correspondence Dr M. S. Thambir...

Developmental dyslexia affects almost 10% of school-aged children and represents a significant public health problem. Its etiology is unknown. The consistent presence of phonological difficulties combined with an inability to manipulate language sounds and the grapheme-phoneme conversion is widely acknowledged. Numerous scientific studies have also documented the presence of eye movement anomal...

Background: To increase recognition of the number students who study medicine with dyslexia and support available, it is important to cultivate a culture in which peers can fellow academically pastorally. This aims understand medical students’ perceptions confidence supporting before after workshop on Dyslexia. Method: Pre-Post Intervention Evaluation form 36 1st year start small group awarenes...

It has been proposed that developmental dyslexia is associated with a deficit in the magnocellular pathway of the visual system. Other research focuses upon the heterogeneous nature of developmental dyslexia, and evidence that subgroups of dyslexia may be identified based on selective deficits in specific component reading skills. This study tested the hypothesis that visual processing deficits...

Until the 1950s, developmental dyslexia was defined as a hereditary visual disability, selectively affecting reading without compromising oral or non-verbal reasoning skills. This changed radically after the development of the phonological theory of dyslexia; this not only ruled out any role for visual processing in its aetiology, but it also cast doubt on the use of discrepancy between reading...

Developmental dyslexia is an unexplained inability to acquire accurate or fluent reading that affects approximately 5-17% of children. Dyslexia is associated with structural and functional alterations in various brain regions that support reading. Neuroimaging studies in infants and pre-reading children suggest that these alterations predate reading instruction and reading failure, supporting t...