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 …

Many people doubt that a specific disorder of reading (dyslexia) even exists, let alone that it
may have a perceptual basis. However, a high proportion of children whose reading is …

Developmental dyslexia probably results from minor disorganisation of the specialisation of
the two cerebral hemispheres. The consequences of impairment of the visuomotor and …

Abstract the research to be described concerns the nature of visual processing in dyslexic
and normal-reading children/the central issue... was whether these children differ from …

Many children who have unusual difficulty learning to read complain of visual perceptual
anomalies, such as the letters appearing to blur, move around, or split into two. Naturally …

The term dyslexia originated in 1887 when an ophthalmologist described the difficulty of
learning to read. After more than a century of research, we still do not know the etiology of …

Traditionally, it has been speculated that weaknesses in the visual processing of cognitive
aspects of the written word could lead to reading problems, and if so, such a condition would …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores vision in dyslexics. It discusses a melody
recognition study, which showed a clear decrement in a subset of dyslexics in sight reading …

We report the case of Olivia, a 10–year-old developmental dyslexic whose reading age is 7
years 7 months. Most of her reading errors are visual paralexias and she makes neither …

Most attempts to demonstrate a perceptual deficit in dyslexic children have disregarded
aspects of visual processing that are peculiar to written language. Evidence is adduced that …