Psychology & Psychiatry

Classroom behaviour and dyslexia research

Bournemouth University lecturer Dr Julie Kirkby is investigating the significance of copying and note-taking in the classroom and how it affects the learning of Dyslexic children.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Smartphone beats paper for some with dyslexia

Matthew Schneps is a researcher at Harvard University with a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also happens to have dyslexia, so reading has always been a challenge for him. That ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Dyslexic readers have disrupted network connections in the brain

Dyslexia, the most commonly diagnosed learning disability in the United States, is a neurological reading disability that occurs when the regions of the brain that process written language don't function normally.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Should we do away with 'dyslexia'?

In their recently published book, The Dyslexia Debate, Joe Elliott and Elena Grigorenko controversially call for the term "dyslexia" to be abandoned. They argue it is an imprecise label that does nothing to assist the children ...

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