Purpose This study provides a meta-analysis of the difference between children with primary
or specific language impairment (LI) and their typically developing peers on tasks of …

Impaired linguistic-phonological processing is the most accepted explanation of
developmental dyslexia (DD). However, growing literature shows that DD is the result of the …

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have often been reported to have
associated behavioral, emotional and social difficulties. Most previous studies involve …

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

E-readers are fast rivaling print as a dominant method for reading. Because they offer
accessibility options that are impossible in print, they are potentially beneficial for those with …

People with dyslexia, who ordinarily struggle to read, sometimes remark that reading is
easier when e-readers are used. Here, we used eye tracking to observe high school …

Although the dominant view posits that developmental dyslexia arises from a deficit in
phonological processing and memory, efficient phonological decoding requires precise …

Purpose This study investigated 2 suppression mechanisms—(a) resistance to distracter
interference and (b) inhibition of a prepotent response—in preschool children with specific …

The attentional blink (AB) is a transient attention cost that is shown when report accuracy for
a second target (T2) is reduced when T2 is presented within approximately 500 ms of a first …

A controversial question in reading research is whether dyslexia is associated with
impairments in the magnocellular system and, if so, how these low-level visual impairments …