Developmental dyslexia is a condition in which children encounter difficulty learning to read in spite of adequate instruction. Although considerable effort has been expended trying to identify the source of the problem, no single solution has been agreed upon. The current study explored a new hypothesis, that developmental dyslexia may be due to faulty perceptual organization of linguistically...

Developmental dyslexia is a specific reading disability characterized by unexpected difficulty in reading and writing despite adequate intelligence, education, normal senses and social environment. It is the most common childhood learning disorder affecting five to ten percent of school age children and it is more common among boys than girls. The core deficit in dyslexia is believed to involve...

The aim of this project was to evaluate the use of computer-based screening as a practical solution to identifying dyslexia in juvenile offenders. Funding was provided by Connexions, West Yorkshire. The relationship between dyslexia and offending is complex and contentious. A variety of studies have reported higher rates of dyslexia among offenders than in the general population, leading to the...

There are both theoretical and empirical reasons to support the hypothesis that dyslexia is associated with enhancement of right-hemisphere, visual-spatial skills. However, the neurological evidence is neutral with respect to whether dyslexic visual-spatial abilities should be superior (a compensation model) or inferior (a deficit model). In three studies we tested the hypothesis that dyslexia ...

PAST RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT MUSIC and language skills are related in normal-reading children as well as in children with dyslexia. In both an ongoing longitudinal study with normal-reading children and a pilot study with children with dyslexia, we found a strong relationship between musical discrimination abilities and language-related skills. In normal-reading children, musical discrimination...

There is an emerging body of evidence about how dyslexia affects the performance of healthcare workers and students in practice. At times, concerns have been raised that dyslexia may affect competency and patient safety. There is growing understanding in the health professions about what dyslexia is and what type of support might help dyslexic individuals in their practice. This paper describes...

Developmental dyslexia, or specific learning difficulties, is the most common neurobehavioral disorder affecting school-aged children, with a prevalence rate of 5-17.5%. Family and twin studies have pointed to a genetic component in the etiology of dyslexia. However, dyslexia is a complex disorder at both the genetic and environmental levels, and its nature so far remains unclear. Dyslexia is t...

It has recently been suggested that dyslexia may manifest as a deficit in the neural synchrony underlying language-based codes (Goswami, 2011), such that the phonological deficits apparent in dyslexia occur as a consequence of poor synchronisation of oscillatory brain signals to the sounds of language. There is compelling evidence to support this suggestion, and it provides an intriguing new de...

Performance on a covert visual attention task is compared between a group of adults with developmental dyslexia (specifically phonological difficulties) and a group of age and IQ matched controls. The group with dyslexia were generally slower to detect validly-cued targets. Costs of shifting attention toward the periphery when the target was invalidly cued were significantly higher for the grou...

This family-risk (FR) study examined whether the literacy skills of parents with dyslexia are predictive of the literacy skills of their offspring. We report data from 31 child-parent dyads where both had dyslexia (FR-D) and 68 dyads where the child did not have dyslexia (FR-ND). Findings supported the differences in liability of FR children with and without dyslexia: the parents of the FR-D ch...