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Inter-letter spacing, inter-word spacing, and font with dyslexia-friendly features: testing text readability in people with and without dyslexia.
Abstract Over the last years, several studies have suggested a possible link between dyslexia and deficits in low-level visual processing (e.g., excessive crowding). At the same time, specially designed "dyslexia-friendly" fonts appeared on the market. This class of fonts presents two main features: the particular graphic characteristics of the letterform designed to avoid confusion between similarly shaped letters, and wider inter-letter and inter-word spacing to limit crowding. The literature testing the efficacy of "dyslexia-friendly" fonts in improving reading accuracy and increasing reading speed is controver...
Source: Annals of Dyslexia - March 13, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Galliussi J, Perondi L, Chia G, Gerbino W, Bernardis P Tags: Ann Dyslexia Source Type: research

Dyslexic Characteristics of Chinese-Speaking Semantic Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia.
This study aims to characterize and describe the dyslexic pattern in this group of patients by comparing an English-speaking svPPA group with a Chinese-speaking svPPA group. The authors hypothesized that Chinese-speaking individuals with svPPA would likely commit fewer surface dyslexic errors. By accessing the database of Singapore's National Neuroscience Institute and the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center of the United States, the authors identified three Chinese-speaking and 18 English-speaking patients with svPPA, respectively, for comparison. The results suggest that, instead of surface dyslexia, svPPA in Chines...
Source: Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences - October 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci Source Type: research

Characteristics of Chinese-English bilingual dyslexia in right occipito-temporal lesion
Publication date: November 2017 Source:Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, Volume 45 Author(s): Simon Kang Seng Ting, Pei Shi Chia, Yiong Huak Chan, Kevin Jun Hong Kwek, Wilnard Tan, Shahul Hameed, Eng-King Tan Current literature suggests that right hemisphere lesions produce predominant spatial-related dyslexic error in English speakers. However, little is known regarding such lesions in Chinese speakers. In this paper, we describe the dyslexic characteristics of a Chinese-English bilingual patient with a right posterior cortical lesion. He was found to have profound spatial-related errors during his English word reading, ...
Source: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience - October 16, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research