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Dyslexia News

March 18, 2024

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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 ...
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 ...
New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to ...
A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...

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A new study finds that children can develop key reading skills in a virtual classroom with other ...

Humans read by 'pre-processing' written words to create a pipeline of meaning, according to new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a model to help identify risk factors for reading difficulties in children before kindergarten ...

A study with first-time learners of Japanese has measured how brain activity changes after just a few months of studying a new language. The results show that acquiring a new language initially ...

A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left ...