It is a widely held belief that developmental dyslexia (DD) is a phonological disorder in
which readers have difficulty associating graphemes with their corresponding phonemes. In …

In a recent review, Bernt Skottun1 strongly attacked the hypothesis that some dyslexics show
impaired development of the magnocellular pathway of their visual systems. Significantly …

Developmental dyslexia is not just a literacy problem. Dyslexics' reading and spelling
difficulties are but two of a much larger number of differences between dyslexic and normal …

The phonological theory of dyslexia makes it difficult to distinguish developmental dyslexia
from social causes of reading failure, because, whatever their cause, all poor readers seem …

Until the 1950s, developmental dyslexia was defined as a hereditary visual disability,
selectively affecting reading without compromising oral or non-verbal reasoning skills. This …

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 …

The question that the New York Academy of Sciences Rodin Conference attempted to
answer was, can the problems that children with developmental dyslexia have with learning …

Developmental dyslexics often complain that small letters appear to blur and move around
when they are trying to read. Anatomical, electrophysiological, psychophysical and brain …

The article was motivated by a commentary of Spinelli et al., who commented on our
experimental study with dyslexic children (Lachmann & van Leeuwen, 2008). They …

Dyslexic individuals show subtle impairments in naming pictures of objects in addition to
their difficulties with reading. The present study investigated whether word reading and …