Italian scientists from the University of Padua say that visual attention and spatial problems may be the earliest indicators of dyslexia in children. Until now, experts believed that poor verbal skills were the first manifestation of this condition.
In a paper recently published in the journal Current Biology, auth... |
9 April 2012
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In a new study, investigators from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, managed to determine the specific brain abnormality that underlies the development of dyslexia. The team learned that auditory signal processing pathways display a glitch that is the most likely cause of the condition. The findings are... |
23 December 2011
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A paper published in the latest online issue of the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE shows that exposure to background noises makes it very difficult for people suffering from dyslexia to read.
At least part of the condition is caused by the fact that individuals who have it are always exposed to at least some outside... |
28 November 2011
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Dyslexia, a developmental reading disorder, is a disability that occurs when the human brain is not capable of recognizing and processing certain symbols properly. A new study demonstrates that this disorder has nothing to do with IQ levels, as previous researches had indicated.
Naturally, dyslexia affects childre... |
23 September 2011
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One of the most important things that allows us to recognize voices is noticing how each person pronounces words in a subtly-different way. Researchers have now determined that people who suffer from dyslexia do not have this ability, making it harder for them to recognize other voices.This is what experts refer to a... |
29 July 2011
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A chart posted at onlineschools.org reveals 15 things most people probably do not know about Apple’s chief executive officer. For example, he is dyslexic, meaning he has a learning disability that impairs his ability to read. But that didn’t stop Steve Jobs from becoming the world’s most iconic CEO,... |
9 July 2010
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A team of Belgian researchers recently published a new study, showing that any correlations that may be found between dyslexia and musical abilities are far-fetched, and not rooted in fact. They say that their extensive study of the hypothesized connection yielded no clear evidence to support the initial idea, and ad... |
9 April 2010
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A new scientific study comes to show that the age at which children learn to read can be considered an early indicator of their reading habits later on in life. That is to say, the science team behind the research, based at the University of Leicester, believes that kids form their word- and symbol-recognition patter... |
7 May 2009
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Ghotit is a plug-in for Office Word designed to enhance the standard spell check capabilities of the application with dyslexic users in mind. Microsoft has long referred to both the Windows operating system and the Office System, its two main cash cows, as platforms, since the products can be easily extended with con... |
19 February 2009
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