News tagged with reading disabilities
Study: Simple teaching tool boosts student reading performance
Research from North Carolina State University shows that utilizing a freely available literacy tool results in significant advances in fundamental reading skills for elementary school students, without requiring ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Common genetic influences for ADHD and reading disability
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and developmental reading disability (RD) are complex childhood disorders that frequently occur together; if a child is experiencing trouble with reading, symptoms of ADHD are ...
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Researcher Detects Differences in Early Language of Children with Reading Disability
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by University of Maine Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders Susan Lambrecht Smith is helping to refine speech and language skills of preschoolers as predictors of reading disability.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 22, 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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Early word recognition is key to lifelong reading skills says new study
Children’s early reading experience is critical to the development of their lifelong reading skills a new study from the University of Leicester has discovered.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 06, 2009 |
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Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading
Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the first alphabetic ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 27, 2009 |
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