Recent years have seen the publication of a range of new theories suggesting that the basis
of dyslexia might be sensory dysfunction. In this Opinion article, the evidence for and against …

In this critique of current reading research and practice, the author contends that the extreme
ambiguity of English spelling-sound correspondence has confined reading science to an …

In modern societies, training reading skills is fundamental since poor-reading children are at
high risk of struggling both at school and in life. Reading relies not only on oral language …

At least 3 different types of computational model have been shown to account for various
facets of both normal and impaired single word reading:(a) the connectionist triangle …

Different fields of research within the cognitive sciences have investigated basic processes
in reading, but progress has been hampered by limited cross-fertilization. We propose a …

Developmental dyslexia (DD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder (about
10% of children across cultures) characterized by severe difficulties in learning to read …

The most influential theory of learning to read is based on the idea that children rely on
phonological decoding skills to learn novel words. According to the self-teaching hypothesis …

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of several specific neurocognitive functions
in developmental dyslexia (DD). The performances of 60 dyslexic children and 65 age …

Speech perception deficits in developmental dyslexia were investigated in quiet and various
noise conditions. Dyslexics exhibited clear speech perception deficits in noise but not in …

Although the dominant approach posits that developmental dyslexia arises from deficits in
systems that are exclusively linguistic in nature (ie, phonological deficit theory), dyslexics …