Dyslexia - a knol by Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D. - 1 views
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Dyslexia does not resolve over time. Longitudinal studies indicate that dyslexia is a persistent, chronic condition; it does not represent a transient "developmental lag.” The image on the left shows the trajectory of reading skills over time in good and poor readers. The vertical axis on the left is the reading achievement score
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Dyslexia reflects a very specific difficulty with reading and has nothing to do with intelligence. In fact, understanding ideas and concepts are often at a very high level in dyslexia as are other higher-level reasoning skills. Dyslexia is a localized problem, one involving the sounds, and not the meaning, of spoken language. Consideration of the differences between spoken and written language provides a helpful understanding of why some bright children struggle to read.
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In dyslexic readers, converging evidence from many laboratories around the world has demonstrated “a neural signature for dyslexia,” that is, a disruption of the two neural systems in the back of the brain observed during reading (shown in the image below).