Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a complex neurodevelopmental deficit characterized by
impaired reading acquisition, in spite of adequate neurological and sensorial conditions …

Resumen Los Trastornos Específicos del Aprendizaje constituyen un grupo heterogéneo de
alteraciones frecuentes que pueden generar problemas importantes no solo durante la …

The Dyslexia Debate examines how we use the term" dyslexia" and questions its efficacy as
a diagnosis. While many believe that a diagnosis of dyslexia will shed light on a reader's …

In this study, we concurrently investigated 3 possible causes of dyslexia—a phonological
deficit, visual stress, and a reduced visual attention span—in a large population of 164 …

We examined whether classifications based on reading performance are relevant to identify
cognitively homogeneous subgroups of dyslexic children. Each of the 71 dyslexic …

The visual attention span (VAS) deficit hypothesis in developmental dyslexia posits that a
subset of dyslexic individuals shows a multielement parallel processing deficit due to …

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 …

The processing of letters within strings is challenging for beginning readers. Letter
identification is affected by visual similarity, loss of information with eccentricity and …

In a now-classic article published a couple of decades ago (Brain, 2000; 123: 2373–2399), I
proposed an “extended temporal processing deficit hypothesis of dyslexia”, suggesting that …

It has been suggested that developmental dyslexia may have two dissociable causes—a
phonological deficit and a visual attention span (VAS) deficit. Yet, neural evidence for such a …