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·March 19, 2021·5 min read

Difficulty Learning Nonsense Words May Indicate a Child’s High Risk of Dyslexia

Children at high risk for dyslexia have trouble learning new words after hearing them, a new study reports. Results show those at risk of dyslexia have border difficulties in processing language in the brain, which may account for why reading difficulties occur.

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·March 6, 2021·5 min read

How the Brain Reads Music: The Evidence for Musical Dyslexia

Identifying musical dyslexia could help explain why some musicians are proficient at reading musical scores, while others excel when it comes to playing by ear.

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·February 4, 2021·5 min read

New Book Helps Identify Risks of Reading Difficulties

A new book helps researchers screen for potential reading difficulties in young children.

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·December 1, 2020·5 min read

Children With Dyslexia Show Stronger Emotional Responses

Children with dyslexia show stronger emotional responses than their peers without the disorder. The higher emotional reactivity was correlated with stronger activation in the salience network of the brain, a system that supports self-awareness and emotion.

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·October 9, 2020·3 min read

Why Are Some Bilingual People Dyslexic in English but Not Their Other Language?

The characteristics of language structure and writing system may explain why some bilingual people are dyslexic in English, but not in their other proficient language.

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·September 9, 2020·3 min read

Brain Stimulation Reduces Dyslexia Deficits

Non-invasive transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) applied over the auditory cortex had a pronounced beneficial effect on those with dyslexia.

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·June 26, 2020·3 min read

Variability in natural speech is challenging for the dyslexic brain

People with dyslexia experience difficulties when acoustic variation was added to speech sounds. In the absence of the variation, neural speech sound processing was consistent between dyslexic and typical readers. Difficulties in detecting linguistically relevant information during acoustic variation in speech may contribute to a dyslexic person's deficits in forming native language phoneme representations during infancy.

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·May 13, 2020·3 min read

Detecting dyslexia with interactions that do not require a knowledge of language

A new web-based game that is independent of language can help to detect dyslexia in children.

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·May 4, 2020·6 min read

Understanding the developing brain for reading

A structural brain scaffold in infants serves as a foundation for literacy. Language and reading may refine this pre-existing brain scaffold. The study also reveals robust language networks activate while children sleep if stories are read to them during slumber.

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·January 30, 2020·3 min read

Vision may be the real cause of children’s problems

Visual processing problems in children have been linked to dyslexia, problems with motor skills, and difficulties in mathematics.

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·January 11, 2020·3 min read

Prenatal Exposure to Flame Retardants Linked to Reading Problems

Children whose mothers were exposed to PBDE flame retardants while pregnancy had less efficient reading networks, and increased risk of developing reading disorders.

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·October 22, 2019·4 min read

Finding Upends Theory about the Cerebellum’s Role in Reading and Dyslexia

New findings dispute the popular cerebellar deficit hypothesis of dyslexia. Researchers report the cerebellum is not engaged during reading in typical readers and does not differ in children with dyslexia.

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dyslexia

Difficulty Learning Nonsense Words May Indicate a Child’s High Risk of Dyslexia

How the Brain Reads Music: The Evidence for Musical Dyslexia

New Book Helps Identify Risks of Reading Difficulties

Children With Dyslexia Show Stronger Emotional Responses

Why Are Some Bilingual People Dyslexic in English but Not Their Other Language?

Brain Stimulation Reduces Dyslexia Deficits

Variability in natural speech is challenging for the dyslexic brain

Detecting dyslexia with interactions that do not require a knowledge of language

Understanding the developing brain for reading

Vision may be the real cause of children’s problems

Prenatal Exposure to Flame Retardants Linked to Reading Problems

Finding Upends Theory about the Cerebellum’s Role in Reading and Dyslexia

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