Dyslexia - news item 1 of 130
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Defining Dyslexia - Tunmer W, Greaney K.
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In 2007, the New Zealand Ministry of Education formally recognized the condition of dyslexia for the first time and has subsequently developed a working definition of the condition. The aim of this article is to draw on contemporary theory and research on ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 4 Sep 2010 7:47:06 am
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Dyslexia - news item 2 of 130
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Developmental dyslexia: clinical aspects [Articles]
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Developmental dyslexia (reading disability) is a specific impairment in learning to read that affects 3–6% of school children in English-speaking countries. It is overrepresented in clinical populations referred to child and adolescent mental health services because of its high comorbidity with conduct disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and other developmental disorders....
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:00:39 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 3 of 130
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Eye movements in Germanâ€speaking children with and without dyslexia when reading aloud
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Acta Ophthalmol. 2010: 88: 681†691 (Source: Acta Ophthalmologica)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 30 Aug 2010 5:39:20 am
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Dyslexia - news item 4 of 130
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A Cohort of Balanced Reciprocal Translocations Associated with Dyslexia: Identification of Two Putative Candidate Genes at DYX1.
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Authors: Buonincontri R, Bache I, Silahtaroglu A, Elbro C, Nielsen AM, Ullmann R, Arkesteijn G, Tommerup N Dyslexia is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders where likely many genes are involved in the pathogenesis. So far six candidate dyslexia genes have been proposed, and two of these were identified...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 5 of 130
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A meta-analysis of morphological interventions: effects on literacy achievement of children with literacy difficulties.
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This study synthesizes 79 standardized mean-change differences between control and treatment groups from 17 independent studies, investigating the effect of morphological interventions on literacy outcomes for students with literacy difficulties. Average total sample size ranged from 15 to 261 from a wide range of grade levels. Overall, morphological instruction showed...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 6 of 130
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Another joint statement regarding learning disabilities, dyslexia, and vision-A rebuttal.
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Authors: Lack D Several medical organizations have published yet another joint statement trivializing vision therapy and vision disorders in the learning-disabled population. A review of the references in the joint statement as well as other references find that the joint statement is misleading because of inappropriate citations and selected references,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 7 of 130
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Comorbidity of ADHD and Dyslexia
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(Source: Developmental Neuropsychology)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 19 Aug 2010 6:50:55 am
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Dyslexia - news item 8 of 130
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Neglect dyslexia: a review of the neuropsychological literature.
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Authors: Vallar G, Burani C, Arduino LS Neglect dyslexia (ND) is reviewed, based on published single-patient and group studies. ND is frequently associated with right hemispheric damage and unilateral spatial neglect (USN), and typically involves the left side of the letter string. Left-brain-damaged patients showing ND, ipsilateral (left) or contralateral (...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 9 of 130
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Dyslexia-Associated Kiaa0319-Like Protein Interacts with Axon Guidance Receptor Nogo Receptor 1.
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Authors: Poon MW, Tsang WH, Chan SO, Li HM, Ng HK, Waye MM To identify the putative interacting partners for Kiaa0319-like protein. KIAA0319-like, located near the dyslexia susceptibility locus, DYX8 in chromosome 1p34.3, has been suggested as a positional candidate for developmental dyslexia due to its homology with another gene,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 10 of 130
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The Relationship Between Brainstem Temporal Processing and Performance on Tests of Central Auditory Function in Children with Reading Disorders.
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CONCLUSIONS: Results underscore the importance of central auditory assessment for children with dyslexia. Further, the BioMARK may be useful in identifying children with central auditory dysfunction who would not have been identified using behavioral methods of (C)APD assessment. PMID: 20689038 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 11 of 130
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Are preservice teachers prepared to teach struggling readers?
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Authors: Washburn EK, Joshi RM, Binks Cantrell E Reading disabilities such as dyslexia, a specific learning disability that affects an individual's ability to process written language, are estimated to affect 15-20% of the general population. Consequently, elementary school teachers encounter students who struggle with inaccurate or slow reading, poor spelling,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 12 of 130
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Improving Phonological Dyslexia Using Electrical Stimulation in the Articulatory System [LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]
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(Source: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 4 Aug 2010 8:07:37 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 13 of 130
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Polygenic Heterogeneity: A Complex Model of Genetic Inheritance in Psychiatric Disorders
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A polygenic/threshold model of psychiatric disorder was first introduced more than 40 years ago by Gottesman and Shields (). They proposed, following on from the seminal work of Falconer (), that what is inherited is not so much a disorder as a liability to disorder contributed to by multiple genetic and environmental...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 3 Aug 2010 9:16:02 am
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Dyslexia - news item 14 of 130
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A brief summary of the articles appearing in this issue of Biological Psychiatry
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Pagnamenta et al. (pages 320†328) describe the genomic characterization of a family with two rare microdeletions disrupting the gene DOCK4, which codes for a protein called “dedicated to cytokines-4â€, and CNTNAP5, a gene that codes for “contactin associated protein-like 5â€. Consistent with prior reports, CNTNAP5 deletion segregated with autism....
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 3 Aug 2010 9:16:02 am
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Dyslexia - news item 15 of 130
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Multivariate predictive model for dyslexia diagnosis.
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Authors: Le Jan G, Le Bouquin-Jeannès R, Costet N, Trolès N, Scalart P, Pichancourt D, Faucon G, Gombert JE Dyslexia is a specific disorder of language development that mainly affects reading. Etiological researches have led to multiple hypotheses which induced various diagnosis methods and rehabilitation treatments so that many different...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 16 of 130
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Is season of birth related to developmental dyslexia?
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Authors: Donfrancesco R, Iozzino R, Caruso B, Ferrante L, Mugnaini D, Talamo A, Miano S, Dimitri A, Masi G Different moderators/mediators of risk are involved in developmental dyslexia (DD), but data are inconsistent. We explored the prevalence of season of birth and its association with gender and age of school...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 17 of 130
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Reading and visual processing in Greek dyslexic children: an eyeâ€movement study
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(Source: Dyslexia)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 18 of 130
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Early predictors of dyslexia in Chinese children: familial history of dyslexia, language delay, and cognitive profiles
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(Source: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 19 of 130
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Reaction time and accuracy in erroneous vs correct responses among dyslexic and regular readers: from letters to sentences
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(Source: Dyslexia)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 20 of 130
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Interaction of phonological awareness and ‘magnocellular’ processing during normal and dyslexic reading: behavioural and fMRI investigations
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Abstract (Source: Dyslexia)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 21 of 130
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On the importance of anchoring and the consequences of its impairment in dyslexia
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 22 of 130
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Visual spatial attention and speech segmentation are both impaired in preschoolers at familial risk for developmental dyslexia
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Abstract (Source: Dyslexia)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 23 of 130
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Developmental dyslexia and explicit longâ€term memory
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Abstract (Source: Dyslexia)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 24 of 130
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Procedural learning and dyslexia
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Abstract (Source: Dyslexia)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 25 of 130
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Editorial
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(Source: Dyslexia)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 26 of 130
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Music benefits the brain, research reveals
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(NaturalNews) Northwestern University scientists have pulled together a review of research into what music -- specifically, learning to play music -- does to humans. The result shows music training does far more than allow us to entertain ourselves and others by playing an instrument or singing. Instead, it actually changes...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 30 Jul 2010 7:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 27 of 130
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Brain activity during processing objects and pseudo-objects: Comparison between adult regular and dyslexic readers.
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CONCLUSIONS: The results support the notion that brain activation of dyslexic readers differs from that of the regular readers when processing non-alphabetic patterns, and that the differences appear from the early stage of processing. SIGNIFICANCE: These results emphasize that differences in brain activity between dyslexic and regular readers can be...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 28 of 130
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A New Kind of Literacy From Lines to Links
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For a long, long time I've been arguing that differences in the way people learn, see and think are a good thing despite the fact that the mainstream would have those who don't process information in a traditional and linear way diagnosed with any number of "defects." Mine was dyslexia....
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 22 Jul 2010 8:56:47 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 29 of 130
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Cyclic alternating pattern: A window into pediatric sleep
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Abstract: Cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) has now been studied in different age groups of normal infants and children, and it is clear that it shows dramatic changes with age. In this review we first focus on the important age-related changes of CAP from birth to peripubertal age and, subsequently, we...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 22 Jul 2010 8:02:05 am
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Dyslexia - news item 30 of 130
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Computational modelling of the effects of semantic dementia on visual word recognition.
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Authors: Coltheart M, Saunders SJ, Tree JJ Rogers, Lambon Ralph, Hodges, and Patterson (2004) studied two-alternative forced-choice visual lexical decision performance in patients with semantic dementia. With item pairs where the target word was more "typical" (i.e., higher in bigram and trigram frequency) than the foil (all foils were pseudohomophones),...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 31 of 130
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Semantic paralexias: A group-case study on the underlying functional mechanisms, incidence and clinical features in a consecutive series of 340 Italian aphasics.
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Authors: Ciaghi M, Pancheri E, Miceli G We studied the reading performance of 340 consecutive, Italian-speaking aphasics in order to evaluate the clinical features of deep dyslexia, the functional impairments underlying semantic paralexias, and their neuranatomical correlates. Semantic paralexias were observed in 9/340 subjects (2.4%). Our data and a review...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 32 of 130
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Reading fluency and speech perception speed of beginning readers with persistent reading problems: the perception of initial stop consonants and consonant clusters.
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This study investigated the role of speech perception accuracy and speed in fluent word decoding of reading disabled (RD) children. A same-different phoneme discrimination task with natural speech tested the perception of single consonants and consonant clusters by young but persistent RD children. RD children were slower than chronological age (...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 33 of 130
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Classroom trial
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Adventurer Charley Boorman on growing up with dyslexia (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 14 Jul 2010 5:01:29 am
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Neuropsychological Profile on the WISC-IV of French Children With Dyslexia.
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This study examined the pattern of results on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV; French version) for 60 French children with dyslexia, from 8 to 16 years of age. Although use of WISC-III failed to clearly identify typical profiles and cognitive deficits in dyslexia, WISC-IV offers an opportunity to...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 35 of 130
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[Psychopathology in children with dyspraxia.]
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Authors: Lemonnier E The term "dyspraxia" was coined by Julian de Ajuriaguerra and Mira Stambak in 1964. This clinical term was treated very differently according to which explanatory model was adopted. Nowadays, it is used to refer to developmental coordination disorder in view of its neuro-developmental origin. In any case,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 5 Jul 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 36 of 130
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Rapid processing of letters, digits and symbols: what purely visualâ€attentional deficit in developmental dyslexia?
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Abstract (Source: Developmental Science)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 37 of 130
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Dyslexia: what do paediatricians need to know?
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Abstract: Forty per cent of a child’s waking life is spent in school and one of the most intrusive impacts on the success or otherwise of this experience is that of reading difficulties. Developmental dyslexia has a high genetic contribution affecting 50% of children with dyslexic parents. The paediatrician may...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 38 of 130
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Developmental dyslexia: an overview [Articles]
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This article examines these recent findings. A second article to appear in Advances will focus on clinical aspects of the disorder. (Source: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:00:46 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 39 of 130
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Attention Talk Radio and "The Disorganized Mind" by Nancy Ratey
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DIG Coaching Practices presents Attention Talk Radio and "The Disorganized Mind" by Nancy Ratey: Insights on the Book and How a Person with Dyslexia and ADHD Goes about Writing a Book. (Source: Disabled World)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 30 Jun 2010 9:56:56 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 40 of 130
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Inter-relationships among behavioral markers, genes, brain and treatment in dyslexia and dysgraphia
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Future Neurology , July 2010, Vol. 5, No. 4, Pages 597-617. (Source: Future Neurology) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:12:02 am
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Dyslexia - news item 41 of 130
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Obituary: Paul Satz, 77, psychiatry professor, founder of UCLA neuropsychology program
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Paul Satz, a UCLA professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and the founder of the neuropsychology program at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, died June 20, in Lihue, Hawaii, after a long battle with cancer. He was 77. One of the founders...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 25 Jun 2010 9:30:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 42 of 130
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Reading epilepsy from the dominant temporo-occipital region
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Conclusion Besides reading-induced myoclonic jerks of the jaw, a second variant of reading epilepsy exists with clearly partial seizures manifested by visual symptoms and a- or dyslexia. These seizures originate from the occipito-temporal region of the dominant hemisphere, corresponding to the posterior part of the neural network that underlies the...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 25 Jun 2010 9:19:30 am
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Dyslexia - news item 43 of 130
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Psychosocial Experiences Associated With Confirmed and Self-Identified Dyslexia: A Participant-Driven Concept Map of Adult Perspectives.
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Authors: Nalavany BA, Carawan LW, Rennick RA Concept mapping (a mixed qualitative-quantitative methodology) was used to describe and understand the psychosocial experiences of adults with confirmed and self-identified dyslexia. Using innovative processes of art and photography, Phase 1 of the study included 15 adults who participated in focus groups and...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 44 of 130
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The Nature of the Automatization Deficit in Chinese Children with Dyslexia.
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Authors: Wong SW, Ho CS Clarifying whether automatization deficits constitute the primary causes or symptoms of developmental dyslexia, we focused on three critical issues of the dyslexic automatization deficit, namely universality, domain specificity, and severity. Thirty Chinese dyslexic children (mean age 10 years and 5 months), 30 chronological-age-, and 30...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Use of text message abbreviations and literacy skills in children with dyslexia
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This small-scale study compared 10 to 13-year-old dyslexic children's use of text message abbreviations with that of reading age- and chronological age-matched controls. There were no significant differences in the proportion of textisms used between the dyslexic children and the two control groups, although a preference for non-phonetic text abbreviations...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Slightly Early Births Linked to Autism, Dyslexia
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Babies born just 1 or 2 weeks before their 40-week gestation due date are more likely to develop learning difficulties such as autism or dyslexia, according to a British study published on Tuesday. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 10 Jun 2010 3:52:18 pm
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Babies Born At 37 To 39 Weeks Have Higher Risk Of Autism And Special Educational Needs
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After analyzing the birth history of over 400,000 schoolchildren, Scottish researchers found that the risk of autism and/or special educational needs (SEN) were 1.16 times greater for babies born at 37 to 39 weeks of gestation, compared to those born at the full 40 weeks. This finding has important implications...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 9 Jun 2010 5:00:00 pm
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Early babies and special needs
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Conclusion This study is the largest of its kind to look at gestational age across the whole spectrum and any associated risk of a child having special educational needs at school age. It has a number of strengths that increase the reliability of the associations seen: It used a national...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:55:00 am
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The nature of the phonological processing in French dyslexic children: evidence for the phonological syllable and linguistic features' role in silent reading and speech discrimination.
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This study investigated the status of phonological representations in French dyslexic children (DY) compared with reading level- (RL) and chronological age-matched (CA) controls. We focused on the syllable's role and on the impact of French linguistic features. In Experiment 1, we assessed oral discrimination abilities of pairs of syllables that...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Adults with dyslexia are impaired in categorizing speech and nonspeech sounds on the basis of temporal cues [Psychological_And_Cognitive_Sciences-BS]
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Developmental dyslexia is characterized by severe reading and spelling difficulties that are persistent and resistant to the usual didactic measures... (Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 8 Jun 2010 5:40:28 pm
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Lord Of The Rings star Orlando Bloom talks about his 'ongoing battle' with dyslexia
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The Pirates of the Caribbean said his reading difficulties mean that he finds it hard to read scripts. He said: 'It's still an ongoing struggle.' (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 4 Jun 2010 2:43:29 pm
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Perception of phonemic length and its relation to reading and spelling skills in children with family risk for dyslexia in the first three grades of school.
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CONCLUSION: Problems in phonemic length discrimination could be one of the accumulating risk factors affecting development leading to dyslexia. PMID: 20530384 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 31 May 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Minor neurological dysfunction in children with dyslexia
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Aim To improve understanding of brain function in children with severe dyslexia in terms of minor neurological dysfunctions (MNDs).Method One hundred and four children (81 males, 23 females; age range 7[ndash]12y; mean age 9y 7mo, SD 1y 2mo;) with severe dyslexia (the presence of a Full-scale IQ score of [ge]85,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 28 May 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia Workshop in Queenstown New Zealand - Disability News
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One of the world's foremost thinkers on dyslexia is coming to Queenstown New Zealand to deliver an exciting new workshop for parents and teachers. (Source: Disabled World)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 28 May 2010 9:43:52 pm
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Developmental dyslexia in Chinese and English populations: dissociating the effect of dyslexia from language differences
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Previous neuroimaging studies have suggested that developmental dyslexia has a different neural basis in Chinese and English populations because of known differences in the processing demands of the Chinese and English writing systems. Here, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we provide the first direct statistically based investigation into how the...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 28 May 2010 8:55:45 am
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Book Review: Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain
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The Quarterly Review of Biology, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 229-230, June 2010. (Source: QRB Latest Issue)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 25 May 2010 5:11:25 pm
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Psychometric profile of children with auditory processing disorder and children with dyslexia
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Conclusions Children diagnosed by audiological experts as having APD are likely to have broader neurodevelopmental disorders and would benefit from evaluation by a multidisciplinary team. (Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 25 May 2010 9:14:01 am
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Newborn Infants Learn While Asleep; Study May Lead To Later Disability Tests
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Sleeping newborns are better learners than thought, says a University of Florida researcher about a study that is the first of its type. The study could lead to identifying those at risk for developmental disorders such as autism and dyslexia. "We found a basic form of learning in sleeping newborns,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 19 May 2010 7:00:00 am
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Language Development, Literacy Skills, and Predictive Connections to Reading in Finnish Children With and Without Familial Risk for Dyslexia.
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Authors: Torppa M, Lyytinen P, Erskine J, Eklund K, Lyytinen H Discriminative language markers and predictive links between early language and literacy skills were investigated retrospectively in the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia in which children at familial risk for dyslexia have been followed from birth. Three groups were formed...
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Dyslexia Linked to Differences in Brain Circuitry
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Scans picked up structural variations in critical 'white matter,' researchers say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Learning Disorders (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 14 May 2010 8:00:00 pm
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Differences in language circuits in the brain linked to dyslexia: Important 'information highway' less well organized in the dyslexic brain
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Children with dyslexia often struggle with reading, writing, and spelling, despite getting an appropriate education and demonstrating intellectual ability in other areas. New neurological research has found that these children's difficulties with written language may be linked to structural differences within an important information highway in the brain known to...
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Arsht-Cannon Fund Brings Nemours BrightStart! Dyslexia Initiative to Delaware
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Promising Nemours Program to Reach Pre-Schoolers... (Source: Disabled World)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 11 May 2010 3:56:59 pm
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Differences In Language Circuits In The Brain Linked To Dyslexia
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Children with dyslexia often struggle with reading, writing, and spelling, despite getting an appropriate education and demonstrating intellectual ability in other areas. New neurological research has found that these children's difficulties with written language may be linked to structural differences within an important information highway in the brain known to...
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Differences in language circuits in the brain linked to dyslexia: Important 'information highway' less well organised in the dyslexic brain
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Children with dyslexia often struggle with reading, writing, and spelling, despite getting an appropriate education and demonstrating intellectual ability in other areas. New neurological research has found that these children's difficulties with written language may be linked to structural differences within an important information highway in the brain known to...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 10 May 2010 4:00:00 am
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Teacher Attitudes Toward Dyslexia: Effects on Teacher Expectations and the Academic Achievement of Students With Dyslexia.
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Authors: Hornstra L, Denessen E, Bakker J, Bergh LV, Voeten M The present study examined teacher attitudes toward dyslexia and the effects of these attitudes on teacher expectations and the academic achievement of students with dyslexia compared to students without learning disabilities. The attitudes of 30 regular education teachers toward...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 4 May 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia as Disability or Handicap: When Does Vocabulary Matter?
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This article suggests one reason why this may be so. The suggestion is based on a distinction between dyslexia as a disability (poor ability)-as it is viewed and explained by psycholinguistic and neuropsychological research-and dyslexia seen as a handicap (the consequences of a poor ability) in the educational world. While...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 4 May 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Do children with developmental dyslexia have impairments in implicit learning?
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We explored implicit learning in a group of typically developing and developmental dyslexic primary school children (9-12 y) using a modified artificial grammar learning task. Performance was calculated using two measures of performance: a perfect free recall (PFR) score and a grammaticality judgment score. Both groups of children required the...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Evidence shows vision therapy does not benefit children with dyslexia [FOCUS ON SUBSPECIALTIES]
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 27 Apr 2010 5:01:58 pm
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What Is Dyslexia? What Causes Dyslexia?
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Dyslexia, also called specific reading disability, is a common type of learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in the reading and spelling of words. It is a disorder in the brain's ability to translate written images received from the eyes into meaningful language. It manifests itself as a...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 27 Apr 2010 7:00:00 am
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5 Quick Tips For Parents Of Overweight Kids
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More than 25 million American children are obese or at risk for becoming obese. If you're the parent of an overweight kid, you're probably wondering what you can do to help your child. BeSmartBeWell.com interviewed leading childhood obesity experts, as well as parents and kids, to come up with some...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 21 Apr 2010 6:00:00 am
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Lexinome, Proteome, Ima*Genome? New Views of Dyslexia
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Presented by: Jeffery Gruen, M.D., Yale University, School of MedicineCategory: NeuroscienceAired date: 04/19/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 20 Apr 2010 3:53:00 pm
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Surface and phonological developmental dyslexia in Greek.
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Authors: Douklias SD, Masterson J, Hanley JR The present study examined whether equivalents of surface and phonological subtypes of developmental dyslexia could be found among a sample of 84 poor readers aged 9-12 years in Greece. Word reading latency was used as a measure of lexical skill, and nonword reading...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Amblyopic dyslexia: A little investigated reading disorder.
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We present a case of a little investigated reading disorder we call 'amblyopic dyslexia'. The reading impairment in this patient resulted from a left extrastriate and white matter lesion causing a scotomatic area of partial deficit within the right visual field. The visual deficit was consistent with cerebral amblyopia, that...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Therapeutic effectiveness of phonological remediation program in students with developmental dyslexia
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CONCLUSION: the phonological remediation program was effective for students with or without developmental dyslexia, suggesting that the sound-letter relation skill should be used in the classroom context in order to improve the reading skills for these students. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 10 Apr 2010 3:01:23 pm
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Music therapy fails dyslexics: No link between dyslexia and a lack of musical ability, study finds
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There is no link between a lack of musical ability and dyslexia. Moreover, attempts to treat dyslexia with music therapy are unwarranted, according to scientists in Belgium. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 10 Apr 2010 9:00:00 am
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Music Therapy Fails Dyslexic Readers
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There is no link between a lack of musical ability and dyslexia. Moreover, attempts to treat dyslexia with music therapy are unwarranted, according to scientists in Belgium writing in the current issue of the International of Journal of Arts and Technology... (Source: Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News From Medical News...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 9 Apr 2010 9:00:00 am
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No Link Between Dyslexia and Lack of Musical Ability
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Music therapy fails dyslexics - There is no link between dyslexia and a lack of musical ability. (Source: Disabled World)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 8 Apr 2010 4:37:18 pm
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Music therapy fails dyslexics
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(Inderscience Publishers) There is no link between a lack of musical ability and dyslexia. Moreover, attempts to treat dyslexia with music therapy are unwarranted, according to scientists in Belgium writing in the current issue of the International of Journal of Arts and Technology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 8 Apr 2010 4:00:00 am
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Abnormal pattern of cortical speech feature discrimination in six-year-old children at-risk for dyslexia.
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Authors: Lovio R, Näätänen R, Kujala T The present study aimed to determine whether speech-sound encoding and discrimination are affected in 6-year-old children having an elevated risk for dyslexia. Their event-related potentials (ERPs) for syllables and syllable changes critical in speech perception and language development (vowel, vowel-duration, consonant, frequency (F0),...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Increased left prefrontal activation during an auditory language task in adolescents born preterm at high-risk.
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Authors: Frye RE, Malmberg B, McLean J, Sw. P, Smith K, Papanicolaou A, Landry S Although individuals born preterm are at risk for cognitive dysfunction, few studies have examined functional brain reorganization in these individuals. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine cortical reorganization related to preterm birth. Thirty-one adolescents systemically...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Single-digit arithmetic in children with dyslexia
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It has been suggested that individuals with dyslexia show poorer performance on those aspects of arithmetic that involve the manipulation of verbal representations, such as the use of fact retrieval strategies. The present study examined this in 13 children with dyslexia who showed normal general mathematics achievement and 16 matched...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Detection and Identification of Monaural and Binaural Pitch Contours in Dyslexic Listeners
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Abstract The use of binaural pitch stimuli to test for the presence of binaural auditory impairment in reading-disabled subjects has so far led to contradictory outcomes. While some studies found that a majority of dyslexic subjects was unable to perceive binaural pitch, others obtained a clear response of dyslexic listeners...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 6 Apr 2010 6:08:38 pm
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Do you hear a voice in your head when you read? If not... you could be dyslexic
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A professor believes he has found a link between lack of inner speech and poor reading inability, after meeting dyslexia sufferer Gary Chevin, pictured. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 3 Apr 2010 9:00:13 pm
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Spelling deficits in dyslexia: evaluation of an orthographic spelling training.
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Authors: Ise E, Schulte-Körne G Orthographic spelling is a major difficulty in German-speaking children with dyslexia. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an orthographic spelling training in spelling-disabled students (grade 5 and 6). In study 1, ten children (treatment group) received 15 individually administered...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Dyslexia and hyperlexia in bilinguals
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This study explores the nature of reading difficulties of two bilinguals in Kannada and English, which vary in their orthographic depth and script layout. VN and MS manifest two different types of reading disabilities, dyslexia and hyperlexia, respectively. The performance of VN was below average on Kannada and English tests...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Characterization of a Family with Rare Deletions in CNTNAP5 and DOCK4 Suggests Novel Risk Loci for Autism and Dyslexia
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Conclusions: This study highlights two new risk factors for ASD and dyslexia and demonstrates the importance of performing a high-resolution assessment of genomic background, even after detection of a rare and likely damaging microdeletion using a targeted approach. (Source: Biological Psychiatry) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network ,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:00:00 pm
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Anchoring the deficit of the anchor deficit: dyslexia or attention?
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In the anchoring deficit hypothesis of dyslexia (Trends Cogn. Sci., 2007; 11: 458-465), it is proposed that perceptual problems arise from the lack of forming a perceptual anchor for repeatedly presented stimuli. A study designed to explicitly test the specificity of the anchoring deficit for dyslexia is presented. Four groups,...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Predicting reading and spelling difficulties in transparent and opaque orthographies: a comparison between Scandinavian and US/Australian children
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In this study, predictors of reading and spelling difficulties among children learning more transparent (Norwegian/Swedish) and less transparent (English) orthographies were examined longitudinally from preschool through Grade 2 using parallel versions of tests. A series of logistic regression analysis indicated three main findings. First, phonological awareness as a predictor of...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Bmi and rs1455832 snp of the robo1 gene: association analysis in patients using antipsychotics
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Background: Weight gain is an important side effect of antipsychotics. It is associated with diabetes mellitus type II, hypertension, and other cardiovascular diseases. Furthermore, it greatly contributes to reduced compliance and is a serious threat to successful pharmacotherapy. A polymorphism (rs1455832) at a locus intronic to the gene roundabout axon...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 22 Mar 2010 5:19:44 pm
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Deviant processing of letters and speech sounds as proximate cause of reading failure: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of dyslexic children
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Learning to associate auditory information of speech sounds with visual information of letters is a first and critical step for becoming a skilled reader in alphabetic languages. Nevertheless, it remains largely unknown which brain areas subserve the learning and automation of such associations. Here, we employ functional magnetic resonance imaging...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sat, 20 Mar 2010 5:20:01 am
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Verbal and academic skills in children with early-onset type 1 diabetes
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This study aimed to explore the mechanism of learning deficits in children with diabetes by assessing basic verbal and academic skills in children with early-onset diabetes and in comparison children. In addition, the incidence of dyslexia ([le]10th centile in reading speed or reading[ndash]spelling accuracy) was studied.Method The performance of 51...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Executive working memory processes in dyslexia: Behavioral and fMRI evidence
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Beneventi, H., Tønnessen, F. E., Ersland, L. & Hugdahl, K. (2010). Executive working memory processes in dyslexia: Behavioral and fMRI evidence. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Dyslexia is an impairment in learning to read and write, primarily associated with a phonological core deficit. However, the manifestation of symptoms in dyslexia also...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Erratum to: Improvements in Spelling after QEEG-based Neurofeedback in Dyslexia: A Randomized Controlled Treatment Study.
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Authors: Breteler MH, Arns M, Peters S, Giepmans I, Verhoeven L PMID: 20225003 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Word length and word frequency affect eye movements in dyslexic children reading in a regular (German) orthography.
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Authors: Dürrwächter U, Sokolov AN, Reinhard J, Klosinski G, Trauzettel-Klosinski S We combined independently the word length and word frequency to examine if the difficulty of reading material affects eye movements in readers of German, which has high orthographic regularity, comparing the outcome with previous findings available in other languages....
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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The Effect of Variation in Expression of the Candidate Dyslexia Susceptibility Gene Homolog Kiaa0319 on Neuronal Migration and Dendritic Morphology in the Rat
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We investigated the postnatal effects of embryonic knockdown and overexpression of the candidate dyslexia gene homolog Kiaa0319. We used in utero electroporation to transfect cells in E15/16 rat neocortical ventricular zone with either 1) small hairpin RNA (shRNA) vectors targeting Kiaa0319, 2) a KIAA0319 expression construct, 3) Kiaa0319 shRNA along...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:48:53 pm
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Rise time and formant transition duration in the discrimination of speech sounds: the Ba–Wa distinction in developmental dyslexia
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Across languages, children with developmental dyslexia have a specific difficulty with the neural representation of the sound structure (phonological structure) of speech. One likely cause of their difficulties with phonology is a perceptual difficulty in auditory temporal processing (Tallal, 1980). Tallal (1980) proposed that basic auditory processing of brief, rapidly...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Of rats and men: A reply to Skottun
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In a letter to Cortex, commented on the use of an animal model that was referred to in our paper (, this issue) to generate a hypothesis on how the neural development in dyslexia may lead to deficits in visual processing. Here we present a response to this letter. (Source: Cortex)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Vision in developmental disorders: Is there a dorsal stream deficit?
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Authors: Grinter EJ, Maybery MT, Badcock DR The main aim of this review is to evaluate the proposal that several developmental disorders affecting vision share an impairment of the dorsal visual stream. First, the current definitions and common measurement approaches used to assess differences in both local and global functioning...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Art students who cannot draw: Exploring the relations between drawing ability, visual memory, accuracy of copying, and dyslexia.
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Some art students, despite being at art school, cannot draw very well, and would like to be able to draw well. It has been suggested that poor drawing may be a particular problem for students with dyslexia (and a high proportion of art school students is dyslexic). In Study 1...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 1 Mar 2010 5:00:00 am
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Rise time and formant transition duration in the discrimination of speech sounds: the Ba†Wa distinction in developmental dyslexia
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(Source: Developmental Science) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:00:00 am
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Patient Money: Nudging Schools to Help Students With Learning Disabilities
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Federal law says schools must provide an appropriate education for all children with learning disabilities, but parents can help by becoming advocates and experts. (Source: NYT > Health)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 26 Feb 2010 2:39:01 pm
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Music Training Enhances Brainstem Sensitivity To Speech Sounds
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At a press briefing, Saturday, Feb. 20, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, a Northwestern University neuroscientist argued that music training has profound effects that shape the sensory system and should be a mainstay of K-12 education... (Source: Dyslexia News From Medical News Today)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:00 am
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Health Tip: Looking for Early Signs of Dyslexia
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Be aware of these possible symptoms Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Learning Disorders (Source: MedlinePlus Health News) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 18 Feb 2010 2:00:00 pm
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A Sensory Fix for Problems in School (preview)
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To succeed in school, children must master the “three R’s”--reading, writing and arithmetic--but not all students readily grasp these basic skills. Among English-speaking children, an estimated 2 to 15 percent have trouble reading or spelling, problems broadly classified as dyslexia. From 1 to 7 percent struggle to do math, a...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 18 Feb 2010 2:00:00 pm
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Do you have dyslexia, dyspraxia or dyscalculia?
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The RCN is looking for members who are affected by dyslexia, dyspraxia or dyscalculia and are willing to share their stories. (Source: Royal College of Nursing - UK- National News)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 17 Feb 2010 3:24:44 pm
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Universal Eye Problem Leads To Better Vision
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'Crowding', the phenomenon when people are less able to differentiate letters if they are surrounded by other letters, actually leads to better vision. This is the conclusion of Dr Frans Cornelissen, who together with Dr Ronald van den Berg and Prof. Jos Roerdink is the first to succeed in explaining...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 16 Feb 2010 9:00:00 am
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Should we eradicate dyslexia?
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There are some highly successful and influential people who have dyslexia, and some might argue that it is this that has given them the abilities they needed to succeed. What are the positive aspects? (Source: HSJ)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 11 Feb 2010 4:36:00 pm
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Rats, dyslexia, and the magnocellular system
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emphasize anomalies of the magnocellular system in connection with dyslexia. Interspersed in their description are references to the cortex of rats. The problem in this connection is that the rat does not have a magnocellular system. The term “magnocellular system†refers specifically to a portion of the subcortical visual system...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:00:00 am
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Reading, dyslexia, and vision therapy
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This workshop will give a comprehensive summary of the latest information on language acquisition, reading, dyslexia, and eye functions necessary to read. We will cover in depth controversial theories such as the Magnocellular Theory and the Irlen Syndrome (Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome). Behavioral/Developmental Optometric theories and practice will be reviewed. Behavioral...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:00:00 am
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Effects of dyslexia on postural control in adults
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Dyslexia has been shown to affect postural control. The aim of the present study was to investigate the difference in postural stability measured as torque variance in an adult dyslexic group (n=14, determined using the Adult Dyslexia Checklist (ADCL) and nonsense word repetition test) and an adult non-dyslexic group (n=39)...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:00:00 am
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Fractionating the multi-character processing deficit in developmental dyslexia: Evidence from two case studies
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Abstract: While there is growing evidence that some dyslexic children suffer from a deficit in simultaneously processing multiple visually displayed elements, the precise nature of the deficit remains largely unclear. The aim of the present study is to investigate possible cognitive impairments at the source of this deficit in dyslexic...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Subtypes of developmental dyslexia in transparent orthographies: A comment on Lachmann and Van Leeuwen (2008).
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Authors: Spinelli D, Brizzolara D, De Luca M, Gasperini F, Martelli M, Zoccolotti P Lachmann and Van Leeuwen (2008) proposed two diagnostic subtypes of developmental dyslexia in a language with transparent orthography (German). The classification was based on reading time, rather than reading errors, for lists of words and nonwords....
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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UC Innovation Promises New Hope For Children With Dyslexia
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Reading and retaining information. That's the challenge faced by the one in five children who have some form of dyslexia. Overcoming that challenge could soon become easier for educators and children thanks to pioneering design research from the University of Cincinnati's internationally ranked College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 28 Jan 2010 8:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 114 of 130
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Ambidextrous behaviour studied
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Conclusion This research has intriguing findings, but there are a number of limitations to consider: The small number of ambidextrous children studied (87) means that the results are more likely to be affected by chance, thus reducing their reliability. Although the study took into account some factors that could affect...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 26 Jan 2010 5:08:00 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 115 of 130
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Understanding the time variant connectivity of the language network in developmental dyslexia: new insights using Granger causality
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Abstract The reading process takes place in a neuronal network comprising the inferior frontal, posterior dorsal and posterior ventral brain areas. It is suggested that developmental dyslexia is caused by a disruption of the two posterior network areas. What remains debatable is whether these areas are affected in their functionality...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 25 Jan 2010 4:58:57 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 116 of 130
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Brain plasticity in developmental dyslexia after phonological treatment:, a beta EEG band study.
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Authors: Penolazzi B, Spironelli C, Claudiovio , Angrilli A Linguistic EEG hemispheric reorganization was investigated in 14 dyslexic children after a 6-month phonological training (10min/day through PC software). Error rates from three linguistic tasks significantly decreased and reading speed improved after the training. A significant positive correlation (r(12)=0.536) was found at...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 117 of 130
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Reorganizing the instructional reading components: could there be a better way to design remedial reading programs to maximize middle school students with reading disabilities' response to treatment?
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Authors: Calhoon MB, Sandow A, Hunter CV The primary purpose of this study was to explore if there could be a more beneficial method in organizing the individual instructional reading components (phonological decoding, spelling, fluency, and reading comprehension) within a remedial reading program to increase sensitivity to instruction for middle...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 118 of 130
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Dyslexia: a deficit in visuo-spatial attention, not in phonological processing.
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Authors: Vidyasagar TR, Pammer K Developmental dyslexia affects up to 10 per cent of the population and it is important to understand its causes. It is widely assumed that phonological deficits, that is, deficits in how words are sounded out, cause the reading difficulties in dyslexia. However, there is emerging...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 119 of 130
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Dyslexia and DCDC2: normal variation in reading and spelling is associated with DCDC2 polymorphisms in an Australian population sample
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Authors: Penelope A Lind, Michelle Luciano, Margaret J Wright, Grant W Montgomery, Nicholas G Martin & Timothy C Bates (Source: European Journal of Human Genetics)
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 120 of 130
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SD-squared revisited: Reply to Coltheart, Tree, and Saunders (2010).
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The connectionist triangle model of reading aloud proposes that semantic activation of phonology is particularly important for correct pronunciation of low-frequency exception words. Our consideration of this issue (Woollams, Lambon Ralph, Plaut, & Patterson, 2007) (see record 2007-05396-004) reported computational simulations demonstrating that reduction and disruption of this semantic activation...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 12 Jan 2010 4:26:57 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 121 of 130
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Computational modeling of reading in semantic dementia: Comment on Woollams, Lambon Ralph, Plaut, and Patterson (2007).
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Woollams, Lambon Ralph, Plaut, and Patterson (see record 2007-05396-004) reported detailed data on reading in 51 cases of semantic dementia. They simulated some aspects of these data using a connectionist parallel distributed processing (PDP) triangle model of reading. We argue here that a different model of reading, the dual route...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 12 Jan 2010 4:26:57 pm
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Dyslexia - news item 122 of 130
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An Investigation of Methods to Detect Feigned Reading Disabilities.
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Authors: Harrison AG, Edwards MJ, Armstrong I, Parker KC No clinically proven method currently exists to determine if a test taker is feigning or exaggerating symptoms of a specific reading disability (RD) for potential secondary gain (i.e., extra time on examinations, access to bursary funds, or tax benefits). Our objective...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Heritability of the Specific Cognitive Ability of Face Perception.
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Authors: Zhu Q, Song Y, Hu S, Li X, Tian M, Zhen Z, Dong Q, Kanwisher N, Liu J What makes one person socially insightful but mathematically challenged, and another musically gifted yet devoid of a sense of direction? Individual differences in general cognitive ability are thought to be mediated...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Computer-assisted instruction to prevent early reading difficulties in students at risk for dyslexia: Outcomes from two instructional approaches.
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Authors: Torgesen JK, Wagner RK, Rashotte CA, Herron J, Lindamood P The relative effectiveness of two computer-assisted instructional programs designed to provide instruction and practice in foundational reading skills was examined. First-grade students at risk for reading disabilities received approximately 80 h of small-group instruction in four 50-min sessions per...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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An fMRI study of multimodal semantic and phonological processing in reading disabled adolescents.
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Authors: Landi N, Mencl WE, Frost SJ, Sandak R, Pugh KR Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated multimodal (visual and auditory) semantic and unimodal (visual only) phonological processing in reading disabled (RD) adolescents and non-impaired (NI) control participants. We found reduced activation for RD relative to NI in a...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 126 of 130
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Short term auditory pacing changes dual motor task coordination in children with and without dyslexia.
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This study examined the effect of short-term auditory pacing practice on dual motor task performance in children with and without dyslexia. Groups included dyslexic with Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC) scores > 15th percentile (D_HIGH, n = 18; mean age 9.89 +/- 2.0 years), dyslexic with MABC </= 15th percentile (...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:00:00 am
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Dyslexia - news item 127 of 130
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Fish oil supplements in dyslexia - is there evidence of benefit?
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Source: North West Medicines Information Centre Area: Evidence > Medicines Q & A There is some evidence that a deficiency in essential omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is involved in the aetiology of dyslexia in males (a correlation has yet to be found in females). There is little published...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:00:00 am
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The decade we learned language of life
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This article was amended on Wednesday 30 December 2009. In the article above we made several corrections. Our genetic code is 3bn letters long, not 6bn. There was an editing error in the subsection that was headed 'Cloning' and Ardipithecus was misspelt.GeneticsBiologyIan Sampleguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 |...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 29 Dec 2009 9:42:08 pm
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Dyslexia Defined: New Yale Study 'Uncouples' Reading And IQ Over Time
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Contrary to popular belief, some very smart, accomplished people cannot read well. This unexpected difficulty in reading in relation to intelligence, education and professional status is called dyslexia, and researchers at Yale School of Medicine and University of California Davis, have presented new data that explain how otherwise bright and...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Tue, 29 Dec 2009 8:00:00 am
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Reading fluency: implications for the assessment of children with reading disabilities.
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Authors: Meisinger EB, Bloom JS, Hynd GW The current investigation explored the diagnostic utility of reading fluency measures in the identification of children with reading disabilities. Participants were 50 children referred to a university-based clinic because of suspected reading problems and/or a prior diagnosis of dyslexia, where children completed a...
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RSS Source: Med Worm - Dyslexia Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:00:00 am
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