The aim of this study was to investigate the role of several specific neurocognitive functions
in developmental dyslexia (DD). The performances of 60 dyslexic children and 65 age …

In recent definitions of dyslexia there is agreement on the following: dyslexia is a language (-
based) disorder restricted to difficulties in phonological processing abilities. This causes …

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether reading failure in the context of an
orthography of intermediate consistency is linked to inefficient use of the lexical orthographic …

Dyslexic individuals show subtle impairments in naming pictures of objects in addition to
their difficulties with reading. The present study investigated whether word reading and …

The main diagnostic criterion for developmental dyslexia (DD) in transparent orthographies
is a remarkable reading speed deficit, which is often accompanied by spelling difficulties …

Developmental dyslexia is the most common learning disability in children, with prevalence
estimates varying between 3% and 20% of all school age children (see eg, Shaywitz, 1996; …

The science of reading and developmental dyslexia has experienced spectacular advances
during the last few years. Five aspects of this research are discussed in the article.(1) The …

In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in why reading acquisition and
dyslexia both vary across languages. A Finnish child is reading with 90% accuracy by the …

In the history of human evolution, reading and writing skills were developed about 5,400
years ago (Dehaene, 2009), which is fairly late in the context of the 350,000–150,000 years …