There is a dearth of information about the everyday performance difficulties of adult dyslexic
people. This study investigates the empirical support for anecdotal reports of increased …

Background Research into the impact of dyslexia on everyday cognition in adults with
dyslexia is relatively limited and has tended to focus on university students. Aims and …

Short‐term and working memory problems in dyslexia are well‐documented, but other
memory domains have received little empirical scrutiny, despite some evidence to suggest …

Although developmental dyslexia is diagnosed in childhood, follow-up studies indicate that
this condition is not specific to childhood but persists into adulthood. According to interview …

Developmental dyslexia, reading disability, and reading impairment all refer to unexpected
and unexplained poor performance in reading. Expected levels of reading performance can …

Written language is only 5000 years or so old, yet its importance to presentday societies is
hard to underestimate. That said, it is only within the past hundred years or so that literacy …

In accordance with these aims, performances of 60 dyslexic children were compared with
that of 65 age-matched normal readers on verbal, visual-spatial and visual-object task …

Literacy involves the integration of many complex cognitive skills, including those that
enable human beings to input, store and process phonological, visual and kinaesthetic …

A unique overview of research on dyslexia and an account of the underlying causes at
cognitive, brain, and neural system levels that provides a framework for significant progress …

The question of which cognitive impairments are primarily associated with dyslexia has
been a source of continuous debate. This study examined the cognitive profile of Hebrew …