FR Vellutino, JM Fletcher, MJ Snowling… - Journal of child …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We summarize some of the most important findings from research evaluating the hypothesized causes of specific reading disability ('dyslexia') over the past four decades …
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 …
" Reviewing the state of the science of learning disabilities (LD) and describing effective educational practices, this authoritative text has been significantly revised and expanded …
Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment (SLI) were for many years treated as distinct disorders but are now often regarded as different manifestations of the …
SE Shaywitz, BA Shaywitz - Biological psychiatry, 2005 - Elsevier
Converging evidence from a number of lines of investigation indicates that dyslexia represents a disorder within the language system and more specifically within a particular …
Approximately 5% of all public school students are identified as having a learning disability (LD). LD is not a single disorder, but includes disabilities in any of seven areas related to …
In this chapter, we review what has been learned from imaging studies about the brain basis for writing, and then discuss how integration of the developmental neuropsychological …
BA Shaywitz, SE Shaywitz, BA Blachman, KR Pugh… - Biological …, 2004 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: A range of neurobiological investigations shows a failure of left hemisphere posterior brain systems to function properly during reading in children and adults with …
Developmental dyslexia, or specific reading disability, is a disorder in which children with normal intelligence and sensory abilities show learning deficits for reading. Substantial …