Dyslexia News
May 16, 2024
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Apr. 29, 2024 Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 11, 2022 A new study finds that children can develop key reading skills in a virtual classroom with other ...
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 ...
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 ...