There has been a growth in students with dyslexia attending university. These students commonly rate writing as one of their greatest problem areas. Our research set out to describe the effects of dyslexia on the writing skills of students compared to age-matched peers and a spelling-skill-matched group. Generally, the texts of the students with dyslexia were poorer than age controls but not po...

Background: Dyslexia prevalence, diagnosis, risk factors and even awareness are quite uncertain in Egypt. One of the limitations in dyslexia evaluation for Arabic readers is the absence of rapid easy diagnostic test. The only available Arabic Reading Test for dyslexia is lengthy and only applicable at age 9-10 year where it is late for treatment of dyslexia. Objective: The objective of this stu...

The aim of this study was to compare the brain wave pattern of two groups of dyslexic students with perceptual and linguistic type with normal students in reading. Method: In this study, 27 students (24 boys and 3 girls) from first to fifth grade with an average age of 8.16 and a standard deviation of 10.09 years participated. 8 students with perceptual type dyslexia, 10 students with linguisti...

Lexical-decision studies with experienced English and French readers have shown that visual-word identification is not only affected by pronunciation inconsistency of a word (i.e., multiple ways to pronounce a spelling body), but also by spelling inconsistency (i.e., multiple ways to spell a pronunciation rime). The aim of this study was to compare the reading behavior of young Dutch readers wi...

BACKGROUND The most important process in childhood and adolescence is learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of dyslexia among primary male school students and the relationship between dyslexia, obesity and overweight. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 1000 male students (first to fifth grade) in primary schools (20 schools) by using the multi-s...

Purpose: To characterize and to compare the performance of students with dyslexia, learning disabilities, and students with good academic performance in the reading processes. Methods: Participants were 60 students of both genders attending first to fourth grades of public elementary schools, who were divided into three groups: GI – 20 students with interdisciplinary diagnosis of dyslexia; GII ...

Whitney and Cornelissen hypothesized that dyslexia may be the result of problems with the left-to-right processing of words, particularly in the part of the word between the word beginning and the reader's fixation position. To test this hypothesis, we tachistoscopically presented consonant trigrams in the left and the right visual field (LVF, RVF) to 20 undergraduate students with dyslexia and...