Reading comprehension requires the ability to both accurately and fluently identify written
words and to understand spoken language (Perfetti, 1985, 2007). The main task facing …

For many years it has been known that dyslexia is a brain-based disorder that has a
hereditary component and is on the continuum of language disorder. The most widely …

Adults and children with developmental dyslexia exhibit reduced parietotemporal activation
in functional neuroimaging studies of phonological processing. These studies used age …

Background: The underlying mechanisms of dyslexia are still debated. The question
remains as to whether there is evidence of a predominant type of deficit or whether it is a …

The present study aimed to explore the nature of developmental dyslexia in a language
considered to have a transparent orthography, namely, Dutch. We assessed the accuracy …

Specific word reading difficulty, commonly termed 'developmental dyslexia', refers to the low
end of the word reading skill distribution but is frequently considered to be a …

Developmental dyslexia, characterized by difficulty in reading, has been associated with
phonological and orthographic processing deficits. fMRI was performed on dyslexic and …

Developmental dyslexia is often characterized by a visual deficit, but the nature of this
impairment and how it relates to reading ability is disputed (Brain 2003; 126: 841–865). In …

The nature of cognitive impairments in developmental dyslexia was investigated in two
studies. The issue of heterogeneity was addressed and an attempt was made to identify …

A disproportionally high number of children with specific language impairment (SLI) develop
dyslexia. Yet it is hard to predict which individual child is at risk. This article presents a …