Cognitive difficulties are well documented in developmental dyslexia but they present a
challenge to dyslexia theory. In this paper, the Model of the Control of Action is proposed as …

To the best of our knowledge, the first person to suggest that there are different types of
developmental dyslexia was the educational psychologist Helmer Myklebust. In Myklebust …

Background It has been debated whether visual attention span deficit was independent from
phonological deficit in alphabetic developmental dyslexia. Yet, this issue has never been …

There has been debate on whether phonological deficits explain reading difficulty in
Chinese, since Chinese is a logographic language which does not employ grapheme …

A data-driven, transdiagnostic approach was used to identify the cognitive dimensions
linked with learning in a mixed group of 805 children aged 5 to 18 years recognized as …

There is currently debate with regards to the role of phonological deficit in Chinese reading
difficulty, even though some researchers have suggested that the deficit of phonological …

Objective: The effects of developmental dyslexia are not restricted solely to the processes
involved in reading and spelling. Despite this broader impact on cognition, there has been …

Developmental dyslexia is a very common learning disorder causing an impairment in
reading ability. Although the core deficit underlying dyslexia is still under debate, significant …

In the present study, we examined the early word decoding development of 73 children at
genetic risk of dyslexia and 73 matched controls. We conducted monthly curriculum …

The executive function of fluency describes the ability to generate items according to specific
rules. Production of words beginning with a certain letter (phonemic fluency) is impaired in …