Neuroscience
Unsurprising headline of the day: "Dyslexic children exhibit a different pattern of brain activity while reading."
But the UW study the article describes did more than examine that. It tracked changes from treatment, illustrating the brain's ability to normalize over time. Also:
"Most people think dyslexia is a reading disorder, but it is also a spelling and writing problem," said Virginia Berninger. "Our results show that all dyslexics in the 9- to 12-year-old range have spelling problems and children who cannot spell cannot express their ideas in writing."
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Simply increasing the spacing between letters improves the reading ability of children with developmental dyslexia, according to a group of Italian and French researchers (Zorzi et al., 2012). Dyslexic children were 20% faster and twice as accurate when...
Neuroscience
Dyslexia
Unsurprising headline of the day: "Dyslexic children exhibit a different pattern of brain activity while reading."
But the UW study the article describes did more than examine that. It tracked changes from treatment, illustrating the brain's ability to normalize over time. Also:
"Most people think dyslexia is a reading disorder, but it is also a spelling and writing problem," said Virginia Berninger. "Our results show that all dyslexics in the 9- to 12-year-old range have spelling problems and children who cannot spell cannot express their ideas in writing."
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Image: Jose.Stuefer / FlickrChildren and adults with dyslexia have a specific learning difficulty that mainly affects the development of their literacy and language related skills. But what if such a profile also tended to be associated with exceptional...
- The Enigma Of Dyslexic Musicians
Can a musician be dyslexic? The question might seem an odd one, but its relevance becomes clear when you look at auditory theories of dyslexia. We've known for several decades that most dyslexics are poor at phonological processing – segmenting...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles: Time magazine describes what it's like for the siblings of children with autism. Bad Science on how pill pushers and the media medicalise social problems (scroll down for link to MP3 audio file)....
- G R E A T E R / L E T T E R / S P A C I N G / Helps Reading In Dyslexia
Simply increasing the spacing between letters improves the reading ability of children with developmental dyslexia, according to a group of Italian and French researchers (Zorzi et al., 2012). Dyslexic children were 20% faster and twice as accurate when...