Tag Archives: Dyslexia
Children with Dyslexia Show Stronger Emotional Responses
[Source: Science Daily] Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional reactivity than children without dyslexia, according to a new collaborative study by UC San Francisco neuroscientists with the UCSF Dyslexia Center and UCSF Memory and Aging Center. In the study, … Continue reading
Brain Stimulation Reduces Dyslexia Deficits
[Source: Science Daily] Restoring normal patterns of rhythmic neural activity through non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain alleviates sound-processing deficits and improves reading accuracy in adults with dyslexia, according to a study published September 8, 2020 in the open-access journal … Continue reading
Football Players’ Concussions Linked to Dyslexia Gene
[Source” Science Daily] A gene associated with dyslexia, a learning disorder, may make some athletes less susceptible to concussions, reports a new study. This is believed to be the first time that this gene has been implicated in concussion or … Continue reading
SLP Corner: The Couple Who Helped Decode Dyslexia
[Source: New York Times] By now, Sally and Bennett Shaywitz might have retired to a life of grandchild-doting and Mediterranean-cruising. Instead, the Shaywitzes — experts in dyslexia at Yale who have been married to each other for 55 years — … Continue reading
Visual Function Deficits Up in Developmental Dyslexia
[Source: Medical X-Press] School-aged children with developmental dyslexia (DD) more frequently have visual function deficits than typically developing (TD) children, according to a study published online July 19 in JAMA Ophthalmology. Aparna Raghuram, O.D., Ph.D., from Boston Children’s Hospital, and colleagues … Continue reading
