Brain MRIs May Provide An Early Diagnostic Marker For Dyslexia
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0600
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
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600
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
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600
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
Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:00:00 -0600
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
Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:00:00 -0500
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
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:00:00 -0500
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
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:00:00 -0500
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
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:00:00 -0500
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
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:00:00 -0500
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
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:00:00 -0500
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...
