This article reviews our understanding of reading disorders in children and relates it to current proposals for their classification in DSM-5. There are two different, commonly occurring, forms of reading disorder in children which arise from different underlying language difficulties. Dyslexia (as defined in DSM-5), or decoding difficulty, refers to children who have difficulty in mastering th...

In this show and tell description paper we present the readaloud electronic books (eBooks) we create at Sinkronigo.com. Read-aloud eBooks incorporate both audio and text into a single epub3-compliant eBook, which can be read in any compatible eBook reader, where the user can listen to the audio narration while the words are highlighted as spoken. Read-aloud eBooks are a perfect companion for pe...

The paper presents the design of an assistive reading tool that integrates read-aloud technology with eye tracking to regulate speed and support struggling readers in following text while listening it. describes rationale this approach, theory auditory–visual integration, terms automatic self-adaptable technique based on reader's gaze provides individualized interaction experience. This has bee...

OBJECTIVES Little research has been conducted that investigates the benefits of reading for people with neurological conditions despite its age old use to improve well-being. The aim of this study was to identify and review the evidence of the effect of 'lone' reading, reading aloud and shared reading groups on the health and well-being of people with neurological conditions in clinical and lon...

There is an ongoing debate whether deaf individuals access phonology when reading, and if so, what impact the ability to access phonology might have on reading achievement. However, the debate so far has been theoretically unspecific on two accounts: (a) the phonological units deaf individuals may have of oral language have not been specified and (b) there seem to be no explicit cognitive model...

Nine patients with left-sided neglect and nine matched control patients performed three tasks on horizontal (either normal or mirror-reversed) letter strings. The tasks were: reading aloud, making a lexical decision (word vs non-word), and making a semantic decision (living vs non-living item). Relative to controls, neglect patients performed very poorly in the reading task, whereas they perfor...

The current study investigates reading aloud (i.e. pronouncing) words in Persian, a language that omits some of its vowels in its script. A word reading task employing a masked priming paradigm did not yield any differences in speech onset latencies between an onset-matching and an onset-mismatching condition. However, eventrelated potentials (ERPs) did reveal a difference in amplitude between ...