News tagged with dyslexic readers
Design vs. dyslexia: UC innovation promises new hope for children with dyslexia (w/ Video)
Reading and retaining information. That's the challenge faced by the one in five children who have some form of dyslexia.
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Dyslexia defined: New study 'uncouples' reading and IQ over time
Contrary to popular belief, some very smart, accomplished people cannot read well. This unexpected difficulty in reading in relation to intelligence, education and professional status is called dyslexia, and ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Widening our perceptions of reading and writing difficulties
Learning to read and write are complex processes, which can be disrupted in various ways, leading to disorders known as dyslexia and dysgraphia. Two new studies, published in a recent special issue of Elsevier's Cortex (http: ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Music therapy fails dyslexics
There is no link between a lack of musical ability and dyslexia. Moreover, attempts to treat dyslexia with music therapy are unwarranted, according to scientists in Belgium writing in the current issue of the International Jo ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Intel Reader Transforms Printed Text to Spoken Word (w/ Video)
Intel Corporation today announced the Intel Reader, a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who have trouble reading standard print.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 11, 2009 |
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New brain findings on dyslexic children
The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs
Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers.
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Dyslexia varies across language barriers
Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers. Those differences can be seen in the brain and in the performance ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Neurological differences support dyslexia subtypes
Parts of the right hemisphere of the brains of people with dyslexia have been shown to differ from those of normal readers. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Unraveling the roots of dyslexia
By peering into the brains of people with dyslexia compared to normal readers, a study published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has shed new light on the roots of the learning disability, which ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Pre-school age exercises can prevent dyslexia
A typical characteristics of children's linguistic development are early signs of the risk of developing reading and writing disabilities, or dyslexia. New research points to preventive exercises as an effective means to ...
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Remedial instruction rewires dyslexic brains, provides lasting results, study shows
A new Carnegie Mellon University brain imaging study of dyslexic students and other poor readers shows that the brain can permanently rewire itself and overcome reading deficits, if students are given 100 ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 05, 2008 |
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