Breaking news on dyslexia
Brain MRIs May Provide An Early Diagnostic Marker For Dyslexia published
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, the researchers say...
Invention Makes Children Eye Exams Inexpensive, Comprehensive, And Simple To Administer published
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Eighty-five percent of children's learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. When they do, the vision screenings they typically receive can detect only one or two conditions...
Listen Up: Abnormality In Auditory Processing Underlies Dyslexia published
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
People with dyslexia often struggle with the ability to accurately decode and identify what they read. Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption and how it interferes with reading comprehension has not been fully explained...
Background Noise Levels Affect Dyslexic Adults published
Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
Dyslexia affects up to 17.5% of the population, but its cause remains somewhat unknown. A report published in the online journal PLoS ONE supports the hypothesis that the symptoms of dyslexia, including difficulties in reading, are at least partly due to difficulty excluding excess background information like noise...
Intensive Training Helps Children With Reading And Writing Difficulties published
Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:00:00 PST
Intensive daily training for a limited period is better for children with reading and writing difficulties than the traditional remedial tuition offered by schools, reveals new research from the University of Gothenburg. Around 5% of school children in Sweden have problems learning to read and write on account of difficulties with word decoding...
Brain Imaging Study Shows Physiological Basis Of Dyslexia published
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:00:00 PST
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an imaging technique to show that the brain activation patterns in children with poor reading skills and a low IQ are similar to those in poor readers with a typical IQ. The work provides more definitive evidence about poor readers having similar kinds of difficulties regardless of their general cognitive ability...
Phonological Impairment May Be Causing Dyslexia: MIT Study published
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:00:00 PST
New research shows dyslexia involves difficulty processing language sounds in dyslexic brains, or is being called "phonological impairment." When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people pronounce words differently...
Dyslexia Involves Difficulty Processing Language Sounds In Dyslexic Brains published
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:00:00 PST
When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people pronounce words differently. But individuals with dyslexia don't experience this familiar language advantage, say researchers. The likely reason: "phonological impairment...
Children With Dyslexia May Benefit From Early Musical Games published
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:00:00 PST
Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different writing systems and they indicate that the dyslexic brain has trouble processing the way that sounds in spoken language are structured...
Unexpected Function Of Dyslexia Gene published
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 PST
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that a gene linked to dyslexia has a surprising biological function: it controls cilia, the antenna-like projections that cells use to communicate. Dyslexia is largely hereditary and linked to a number of genes, the functions of which are, however, largely unknown...
Those With Reading And Writing Difficulties Find Lifelong Learning Problematic published
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:00:00 PST
One Swede in five is considered to have difficulties reading and writing, and the affected individuals tend to encounter great problems in modern society. A new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg addresses their obstacles at various levels and discusses possible solutions. Being attractive in today's labour market requires lifelong learning...
Experts Would Like Specialized Teaching For Dyscalculia Introduced In Schools published
Sun, 29 May 2011 02:00:00 PST
Specialised teaching for individuals with dyscalculia, the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia, should be made widely available in mainstream education, according to a review of current research published in the journal Science...
Video Games Crack The Speech Code published
Thu, 19 May 2011 03:00:00 PST
When we speak, our enunciation and pronunciation of words and syllables fluctuates and varies from person to person...
Teachers Need Greater Awareness Of Language Disorders published
Thu, 19 May 2011 01:00:00 PST
Greater awareness of 'specific language impairment' (SLI), a language disorder, is needed to ensure better outcomes for the 3-6 per cent of UK school children affected by this disability. Children with SLI have difficulties with most or all aspects of language including grammar, vocabulary and literacy as well as with short term memory...
The Brain Against Words In The Mirror published
Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:00:00 PST
Human beings understand words reflected in a mirror without thinking about it, just like those written normally, at least for a few instants. Researchers from the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Languages (Spain) have shown this in a study that could also help to increase our understanding of the phenomenon of dyslexia...
Explaining Henry Higgins' Ability In My Fair Lady published
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:00:00 PST
When Professor Henry Higgins instructed Eliza Doolittle that it was "Ay not I, O not Ow, Don't say 'Rine,' say 'Rain'", he was drawing on years of experience as a professor of phonetics. But research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the European Commission suggests that Higgins's ability to differentiate expertly between similar sounds may have stemmed from birth...
Brain Imaging Predicts Future Reading Progress In Children With Dyslexia published
Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 PST
Brain scans of adolescents with dyslexia can be used to predict the future improvement of their reading skills with an accuracy rate of up to 90 percent, new research indicates. Advanced analyses of the brain activity images are significantly more accurate in driving predictions than standardized reading tests or any other measures of children's behavior...
Neuroimaging Helps To Predict Which Dyslexics Will Learn To Read published
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:00:00 PST
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used sophisticated brain imaging to predict with 90 percent accuracy which teenagers with dyslexia would improve their reading skills over time...
Elsevier Enables Its E-Books To Read Aloud, Increasing Access For People With Print Disabilities published
Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 PST
Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, has announced that it has enabled the text-to-speech option on all of its ePub book titles. The text-to-speech function enables an e-book to read aloud...
Widening Our Perceptions Of Reading And Writing Difficulties published
Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:00:00 PST
Learning to read and write are complex processes, which can be disrupted in various ways, leading to disorders known as dyslexia and dysgraphia. Two new studies, published in a recent special issue of Elsevier's Cortex (see link below) provide evidence of this variety, suggesting that effective treatment needs to take it into account...
Common Genetic Influences For ADHD And Reading Disability published
Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:00:00 PST
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and developmental reading disability (RD) are complex childhood disorders that frequently occur together; if a child is experiencing trouble with reading, symptoms of ADHD are often also present. However, the reason for this correlation remains unknown...
Gene Discovery Supports Link Between Handedness And Language-Related Disorders published
Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PST
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, have identified a genetic variant which influences whether a person with dyslexia is more skilled with either the left or right hand. The finding identifies a novel gene for handedness and provides the first genetic evidence to support a much speculated link between handedness and a language-related disorder...
Educational Psychologist Believes Children Should Be Tested For Dyslexia Earlier published
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PST
A leading child psychologist believes new tests for dyslexia could help diagnose children from a much earlier age than before. Doctor Peter Gardner, Chartered Educational Psychologist and Founder Director of Appleford School in Shrewton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, says the tests could help children and their parents feel more comfortable about overcoming difficulties with reading...
Less Pain For Learning Gain published
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PST
Scientists long have recognized that many perceptual skills important for language comprehension and reading can be enhanced through practice. Now research from Northwestern University suggests a new way of training that could reduce by at least half the effort previously thought necessary to make learning gains...
Perceptual Learning In Healthy Adults Boosted By Alzheimer's Drug published
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PST
Research on a drug commonly prescribed to Alzheimer's disease patients is helping neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, better understand perceptual learning in healthy adults. In a new study, to be published online Thursday, Sept...
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