Dyslexia is more than just difficulty with translating letters into sounds. Many dyslexics have
problems with clearly seeing letters and their order. These difficulties may be caused by …

The late 19th neurological concept of dyslexia had 3 crucial elements: selectively poor
reading, with unaffected other cognitive skills and a genetic background. The contemporary …

Some people doubt that the concept of developmental dyslexia (DD) is useful at all because
the phonological weaknesses seen in DD cannot be distinguished from those found in every …

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

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 …

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 …

Previous research has suggested that visual magnocellular impairment may be
characteristic of up to 75% of developmental dyslexics. In this study we compared 18 adult …

This chapter shows that visual skills do in fact correlate remarkably well with reading
performance, and that many children with reading problems have unstable visual …

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 …

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