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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The problem of causation has proven particularly elusive in the case of developmental
dyslexia (DD). The field has been dominated by very general hypotheses, such as the idea …

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 …

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

Dyslexia research now faces an intriguing paradox. It is becoming increasingly clear that a
significant proportion of dyslexics present sensory and/or motor deficits; however, as this …