We review significant empirical studies of the arithmetic abilities of children with dyslexia.
These studies suggest that the academic impairments of children with dyslexia are not …

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 …

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 …

The International Dyslexia Association defines dyslexia as unexpected problems of
neurobiological origin in accuracy and rate of oral reading of single real words, single …

This paper reports a study contrasting dyslexic children against a control group of children
without special educational needs (SEN) and a group with varied SENs. Children's abilities …

The present study was aimed at investigating different aspects of Executive Functions (EF) in
children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD). A neuropsychological battery tapping verbal …

Working memory impairments in dyslexia are well documented. However, research has
mostly been limited to the phonological domain, a modality in which people with dyslexia …

The current study investigated the cause of the reported problems in working memory in
children with reading difficulties. Verbal and visuospatial simple and complex span tasks …

Although reduced verbal span is well documented in individuals with developmental
dyslexia, the existing data on visual-spatial span are inconclusive. The aim of the present …

Background Executive functioning (EF) deficits are well recognized in developmental
dyslexia, yet the majority of studies have concerned children rather than adults, ignored the …