Dyslexia News
April 25, 2024
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Mar. 15, 2024 — A rigorous analysis of numerous studies concludes that a part of the brain traditionally associated with movement is abnormal in children with developmental language impairments. The discovery has ...
Mar. 1, 2024 — Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...
Dec. 1, 2023 — Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information reliably ...
Nov. 27, 2023 — New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to ...
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Oct. 17, 2023 — A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study ...
Aug. 23, 2023 — An understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning plays a key role when deaf and hard of hearing children learn to read, ...
Nov. 16, 2022 — Neuroscientists find that brain signatures of reading difficulties in students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are, on average, different from those of students from higher socioeconomic ...
Oct. 21, 2022 — An innovative program to support children with reading difficulties helped them make significant progress when used online, new analysis ...
Oct. 20, 2022 — Scientists have for the first time pinpointed a large number of genes that are reliably associated with dyslexia. Around a third of the 42 genetic variants identified have been previously linked to ...
June 24, 2022 — Researchers say people with developmental dyslexia have specific strengths relating to exploring the unknown that have contributed to the successful adaptation and survival of our ...
Apr. 11, 2022 — A trial which used artificial intelligence to train new teachers to spot potential learning difficulties in pupils found that the approach ...
Apr. 5, 2022 — Researchers report that two seemingly opposing theories of language processing are both correct. The study shows that greater left-brain asymmetry can predict both better performance and average ...
Nov. 15, 2021 — First study combining multiple new methods to understand visual processing and brain activity in dyslexia could improve understanding of which brain ...
Oct. 8, 2021 — Neuroscientist shave discovered a novel, non-invasive imaging-based method to investigate the visual sensory thalamus, an important structure of the human brain and point of origin of visual ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 11, 2022 — A new study finds that children can develop key reading skills in a virtual classroom with other ...
Sep. 29, 2021 — A new study has found that a child's reading speed can be improved by simply increasing the space between letters within a piece of text. The study discovered that text with increased space ...
Sep. 21, 2021 — Humans read by 'pre-processing' written words to create a pipeline of meaning, according to new ...
Aug. 30, 2021 — Researchers, looking at the ability of people to sound out words after a stroke, found that knowing which region of the brain was impacted by the stroke could have important implications for helping ...
June 10, 2021 — Children with reading and writing difficulties who are presented with text on screens with flickering white noise both read better and remember what they have read better, according to a ...
Apr. 28, 2021 — A new article used eye-tracking technology to record eye movements of readers and concluded that people with dyslexia have a profoundly different and much more difficult way of sampling visual ...