We examine whether attention deficits underlie developmental dyslexia, or certain types of dyslexia, by presenting double dissociations between the two. We took into account the existence of distinct types of dyslexia and of attention deficits, and focused on dyslexias that may be thought to have an attentional basis: letter position dyslexia (LPD), in which letters migrate within words, attent...

Dyslexia is one of the most common developmental disabilities; it a disorder manifested by difficulty in learning to read despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence, and sociocultural opportunity. The current study focuses on potential benefits use information communication technology (ICT) support children with dyslexia reading. This paper addresses need for dyslexia-friendly onli...

Objectives: The aim of this research is to design a neuro-cognitive program, based on dysfunctions and alterations of some neural circuits in dyslexics. The visual and auditory working memories in pre-schoolers were evaluated with this program in order to early screening for dyslexia. Methods: This study is a longitudinal descriptive research. A total of 259 randomly selected pre-schoolers, wi...

Acquired dyslexia research has been conducted mainly on English neurological patients. A limited number of dyslexia studies on non-alphabetic orthographies are available. Classical case studies for acquired dyslexia in Japanese, which has two distinctive scripts (morphographic Kanji and phonographic Kana), reported 'script-dependent' dyslexia patterns. Although recent case studies showed 'scrip...

Abstract Introduction In children with epilepsy, comorbidities are frequent. dyslexia, increasingly acknowledged. Little is known about temporal aspects (dyslexia antedating or postdating epilepsy onset, time interval), types, and dyslexia phenotypes. Method From over 1000 files of 51 cases were retrospectively identified a formal diagnosis dyslexia. Ages at diagnoses variables, dyslexia-relate...

Students who have learning difficulties are different from children problems. in this study focused on impaired children's ability to distinguish letters and write numbers. One of the experienced by students is dyslexia. The purpose was determine student (dyslexia) elementary school Segedong District. method used research descriptive method. stages were form instrument design, interview data co...

We examine the dilemmas faced by a medical student with dyslexia who wonders whether he should "out" himself to faculty to receive the accommodations entitled by federal law. We first discuss scientific evidence on dyslexia's prevalence, unexpected nature, and neurobiology. We then examine the experiences of medical students who have revealed their dyslexia to illustrate the point that, far too...

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...