The purpose of this special issue was to provide a forum for contemporary research and thoughtful discourse about dyslexia. Scholars from several disciplines contributed articles that advance our understanding dyslexia with regard early identification, genetic neural bases, assessment, instruction intervention educators' perspectives. In article, we introduce the issue, discuss current evidence...

BACKGROUND Children with specific language impairment (SLI) and dyslexia are known to have impairments in various aspects of phonology, which have been claimed to cause their language and literacy impairments. However, 'phonology' encompasses a wide range of skills, and little is known about whether these phonological impairments extend to prosody. AIMS To investigate certain prosodic abiliti...

Dyslexia is a condition in which person has difficulty (especially) areas related to learning abilities such as reading, writing, and arithmetic or matters relating numbers. This not the skills expected of people with chronological age normal intelligence IQ (quality intelligence). sometimes realized by parents only consider their child slightly delayed, even though it under standard (minimum) ...

A case study is reported of a female patient (JAH), who following a left middle cerebral artery infarct, presented with the cardinal symptoms of deep dyslexia and deep dysphasia (semantic errors when reading and repeating words aloud, respectively). Detailed assessment revealed impaired performance across modalities for many tasks, but particularly those tasks that depend on an intact store of ...

D evelopmental dyslexia (dyslexia) is a heritable condition typically diagnosed in the first school years, characterised by an impairment of reading abilities in spite of normal intelligence and adequate educational opportunities. While the exact neurobiological mechanisms underlying this condition remain obscure, the most convincing current aetiopathogenetic view of dyslexia is that impaired r...

BACKGROUND Causal theories of dyslexia suggest that it is a heritable disorder, which is the outcome of multiple risk factors. However, whether early screening for dyslexia is viable is not yet known. METHODS The study followed children at high risk of dyslexia from preschool through the early primary years assessing them from age 3 years and 6 months (T1) at approximately annual intervals on...

Objectives: This study investigated receptive vocabulary and morphosyntactic skills of children with dyslexia, poor comprehension, typically developing in grade 3 to 6. Methods: A total 45 participated. In order qualify for each group, dyslexia scored below 85 on the word decoding test, comprehenders reading but above 90 test. Typically a standard score both comprehension. All were administered...

Extraordinary progress in functional brain imaging, primarily advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging, now allows scientists to understand the neural systems serving reading and how these systems differ in dyslexic readers. Scientists now speak of the neural signature of dyslexia, a singular achievement that for the first time has made what was previously a hidden disability, now visi...

The first reported case of develop mental dyslexia appeared in the British Medical Journal in 1896. Dr Pringle Morgan, a general practitioner, described a 14-year-old boy named Percy, who, despite being ‘bright and of average intelligence in conversation’, had been unable to learn to read. Specimens of Percy’s writing show many spelling errors characteristic of dyslexia (such as ‘carlfuly’ for ...