Research is reviewed that assesses the extent to which difficulties in psychosocial
adjustment are characteristic of broadly defined learning disabilities (LD) and of specific …

This article provides a brief overview about the current state of cognitive developmental
neuropsychology of developmental dyscalculia (DD) as well as results from a Zurich study …

The association between behaviour problems and dyslexia was assessed in a population
sample of 10-to 12-year-old children. Twenty-five dyslexic children and a matched control …

Developmental dyslexia (specific reading and specific spelling disorder) is thought to stem
from specific features in cognitive processing strongly related to biological maturation of the …

Acta Ophthalmol. 2010: 88: 681–691 Abstract. Purpose: The phonological difficulty and
orthographic regularity of a language influence reading strategies. Only a few studies have …

Objective: Interactive telehealth applications have potential for the assessment of reading
disability in school-aged children. However, there is currently a lack of research on the …

Background: Specific learning disability (SLD) is an important cause of academic
underachievement among children, which often goes unrecognized, due to lack of …

The studies in this doctoral thesis report aspects of cognitive and socio emotional
development in a group of teenagers and young adults with dyslexia. The 75 subjects …

A Consensus Conference on Specific Learning Disorders has been promoted by the Italian
National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS). The Consensus Conference …

The psycho-social development of both preterm and term children whose mothers reported
tocolytic treatment was assessed at the ages of 2, 4.5, and 8 years. Term children exposed …