Dyslexia is a learning disability that impairs one's fluency in reading. It is estimated that
about 5-17% of the population has dyslexia (Shaywitz & Shaywitz, 2001). Majority of the past …

The authors of the present paper describe the probable pathogenetic mechanisms of
specific reading disability, ie dyslexia. This analysis is grounded on the most widespread …

Developmental dyslexia is a learning disability that manifests during the early years of
schooling as unexpected reading problems. Children who demonstrate otherwise typical …

Due to the logographic nature of the writing system, learning to read Chinese places heavy
demands on encoding of orthographic forms through rote memorization. Moreover …

Language development entails four fundamental and interactive abilities: listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. Over the past four decades, a large body of evidence has …

Dyslexia is a developmental disability affecting the acquisition of reading and writing skills,
and its developmental nature makes longitudinal research of great importance. This study …

Writing systems have been qualified as logographic, syllabic or alphabetic according to the
morphemic, syllabic or phonemic representation level of the speech. The diversity of writing …

The present study describes two Frenchteenagers with developmental reading andwriting
impairments whose performance wascompared to that of chronological age andreading age …

This course aims to provide a theoretical understanding of reading development and
reading disorders in different writing systems, with a specific focus on alphabetic (English) …

The neural correlates of developmental dyslexia have been investigated intensively over the
last two decades and reliable evidence for a dysfunction of left-hemispheric reading systems …