Dyslexia - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Gender ratios for reading difficulties.

30 Jul 2009 The prevalence of reading difficulties is typically higher in males than females in both referred and research-identified samples, and the ratio of males to females is greater in more affected samples. To explore possible gender differences in ... Read more...

Dyslexic participants show intact spontaneous categorization processes.

30 Jul 2009 We examine the performance of dyslexic participants on an unsupervised categorization task against that of matched non-dyslexic control participants. Unsupervised categorization is a cognitive process critical for conceptual development. Existing ... Read more...

Computer-based training with ortho-phonological units in dyslexic children: new investigations.

30 Jul 2009 This study aims to show that training using a computer game incorporating an audio-visual phoneme discrimination task with phonological units, presented simultaneously with orthographic units, might improve literacy skills. Two experiments were ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dyslexia - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Reading the signs. 30 Aug 2009
• Gender ratios for reading difficulties. 30 Jul 2009
• Dyslexic participants show intact spontaneous categorization processes. 30 Jul 2009
• Computer-based training with ortho-phonological units in dyslexic children: new investigations. 30 Jul 2009
• Dyslexia: a new synergy between education and cognitive neuroscience. 15 Jul 2009
• When all hypotheses are right: a multifocal account of dyslexia. 29 Jun 2009
• Motor learning and chunking in dyslexia. 29 Jun 2009
• Memory functioning in developmental dyslexia: an analysis using two clinical memory measures. 21 Jun 2009
• Basic reading skills and dyslexia: three decades following right versus left hemispherectomy for childhood-onset intractable epilepsy. 21 Jun 2009
• Neural processing of spoken words in specific language impairment and dyslexia. 2 Jun 2009
• Dyslexic and nondyslexic reading fluency: rapid automatized naming and the importance of continuous lists. 30 May 2009
• Enhanced activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in deaf and dyslexic adults during rhyming. 23 May 2009
• Evidence for an occipito-temporal tract underlying visual recognition in picture naming. 30 Apr 2009
• The meaning of dyslexics' drawings in communication design. 29 Apr 2009
• Extraneous bodily movements and irrelevant vocalizations by dyslexic and non-dyslexic boys during calculation tasks. 29 Apr 2009
• The representation and processing of familiar faces in dyslexia: differences in age of acquisition effects. 29 Apr 2009
• Phonological and orthographic spelling in high-functioning adult dyslexics. 29 Apr 2009
• The incidence of dyslexia among young offenders in Kuwait. 29 Apr 2009
• Low-level defective processing of non-verbal sounds in dyslexic children. 29 Apr 2009
• [Significance of auditory perceptual disorders for pediatric and adolescent psychiatric disorders] 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Dyslexia'

Definition: A cognitive disorder characterized by an impaired ability to comprehend written and printed words or phrases despite intact vision. This condition may be developmental or acquired. Developmental dyslexia is marked by reading achievement that falls substantially below that expected given the individual's chronological age, measured intelligence, and age-appropriate education. The disturbance in reading significantly interferes with academic achievement or with activities of daily living that require reading skills. (From DSM-IV)

Descriptor UI: D004410

Alternative terms: Dyslexia; Dyslexias; Word Blindness; Blindness, Word; Blindnesses, Word; Word Blindnesses; Reading Disorder; Disorder, Reading; Disorders, Reading; Reading Disorders; Reading Disorder, Developmental; Developmental Reading Disorders; Disorder, Developmental Reading; Disorders, Developmental Reading; Reading Disorders, Developmental; Reading Disability, Developmental; Developmental Reading Disabilities; Developmental Reading Disability; Disabilities, Developmental Reading; Disability, Developmental Reading; Reading Disabilities, Developmental; Dyslexia, Developmental; Developmental Dyslexia; Developmental Dyslexias; Dyslexias, Developmental; Developmental Reading Disorder; Alexia; Alexias;

Related Mesh Headings: Learning Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500.300; C10.597.606.150.550.200; C23.888.592.604.150.500.300; C23.888.592.604.150.550.200; F03.550.350.500.200; F03.550.450.400;

History Note: 1966(1963); for ALEXIA use DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED 1977-1999

Technical Notes: dyslexia caused by a brain lesion is DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; note x-ref: ALEXIA, PURE is also available