This chapter outlines i) genetic, sensory, motor and psychological evidence that dyslexia is a
neurological syndrome affecting the development of the brain; ii) the important role of visual …

There is very little agreement about why so many otherwise intelligent children experience
such difficulty learning to read. Up to 10% of children fail to learn to read at the level …

Until recently, many thought developmental dyslexia was a behavioral disorder that primarily
affected reading. In fact, it is a partly heritable condition, the clinical manifestations of which …

Despite the wealth of literature available on the subject of dyslexia, there is little that
explores the subject beyond a single theoretical framework. The need for a comprehensive …

The question of whether developmental dyslexia even exists gets debated about every 10
years because of the difficulty of defining it precisely, and still more the difficulty of treating it …

Developmental dyslexia is defined as an unexpected difficulty in reading in children and
adults who otherwise possess the intelligence and motivation considered necessary for …

Within the last two decades overwhelming evidence from many laboratories has converged
to indicate the cognitive basis for dyslexia: dyslexia represents a disorder within the …

Despite proving its usefulness for over a century, the concept of developmental dyslexia
(DD) is currently in severe disarray because of the recent introduction of the phonological …

Reading words is a complex act involving the processing of sensory, phonological,
orthographic, and semantic information. Various theories about each of these areas have …

Developmental dyslexics, individuals with an unexplained difficulty reading, have been
shown to have deficits in phonological processing—the awareness of the sound structure of …