Developmental dyslexia is defined by reading impairments that are disproportionate to
intelligence, motivation, and the educational opportunities considered necessary for …

Dyslexia is an impairment in reading that can result from an abnormal developmental
process in the case of developmental dyslexia or cerebral insult in the case of acquired …

Specific word reading difficulty, commonly termed 'developmental dyslexia', refers to the low
end of the word reading skill distribution but is frequently considered to be a …

In this chapter, we summarize the key findings that have emerged from functional
neuroimaging studies of skilled readers and individuals with developmental dyslexia. Our …

Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20007 ure, they cannot easily account for the sensory deficits in visual and …

Purpose This review summarizes what is known about the structural and functional brain
bases of dyslexia. Method We review the current literature on structural and functional brain …

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

Within the last two decades, evidence from many laboratories has converged to indicate the
cognitive basis for dyslexia: Dyslexia is a disorder within the language system and, more …

What are the causes of dyslexia? Decades of research reflect a determined search for a
single cause where a common assumption is that dyslexia is a consequence of problems …

Developmental dyslexia is a specific reading disability that is neurobiological in origin. We
first summarise behavioural evidence suggesting that developmental dyslexia results from a …