… we now call developmental dyslexia, termed it ‘word blindness’ because they believed that
… not all studies of developmental dyslexics have confirmed that their visual deficit is entirely …

… that individuals with developmental dyslexia (DD) have deficits in visual magnocellular (M) …
Visual skills and orthographic processing abilities are particularly important for efficient …

… for visual magnocellular deficits in dyslexics has confirmed that at least some dyslexics …
Skottun, while not ruling out that dyslexics may have some kind of visual deficit, has written …

… deficit in developmental dyslexia is due to poor visual … Even though we cannot distinguish
developmental dyslexia from … follow that we cannot distinguish dyslexia from other causes of …

… term strephosymbolia (twisted signs) to describe his theory that unstable cerebral dominance
in developmental dyslexics led to unstable visual representations of letters and their order …

… of up to 75% of developmental dyslexics. In this study we compared 18 adult dyslexics
and 18 controls on two tasks of putative visual magnocellular function. We examined whether …

… magnocellular, are specialized. We review the evidence that many dyslexics have impaired
function of the visual magnocellular … good readers have high magnocellular sensitivity. We …

… in fact have silenced the magnocellular pathway. While we have suggested that a visual
magnocellular deficit may be part of a general developmental neuropathology affecting sensory …

… 2 of 16 dyslexic adults had visual M deficit. Meanwhile, these two visually impaired dyslexics
also … problems, suggesting that visual M deficit was not an independent core deficit of DD. …

… in dyslexia. Next we will review the evidence in support of a visual system deficit in dyslexia …
Taken together, these findings do support a rapid visual processing or magnocellular deficit, …