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The effect of auditory pacing on period stability and temporal consistency in children with and without dyslexia co-existing motor dysfunction.
Abstract The primary purpose of this study was to examine the effect of auditory pacing on period stability and temporal consistency of a dual motor task in children with and without dyslexia and with varying amounts of motor deficiency. Fifty-four children were divided into groups based on dyslexia diagnosis and score on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-Second Edition (Movement ABC-2). Participants performed a dual motor task (clapping while walking) at a self-determined pace in a pretest block, practiced 4 blocks of 4 trials with a metronome pacing signal, and finished with a posttest block without a...
Source: Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly : APAQ - January 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Getchell N, Liang LY, Golden D, Logan SW Tags: Adapt Phys Activ Q Source Type: research

Brain anatomy of dyslexia is not the same in men and women, boys and girls
(Georgetown University Medical Center) Using MRI, neuroscientists have found significant differences in brain anatomy when comparing men and women with dyslexia to their non-dyslexic control groups. Their study is the first to directly compare brain anatomy of females with and without dyslexia. "Females have been overlooked…. Our research suggests that we need to tackle dyslexia in each sex separately to address questions about its origin and potentially, treatment," says Guinevere Eden, director, Center for the Study of Learning, Georgetown.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Brain imaging study eliminates differences in visual function as a cause of dyslexia
(Georgetown University Medical Center) A new brain imaging study of dyslexia shows that visual system differences do not cause the disorder, but instead are likely a consequence. "Our results confirm that differences in the visual system of children with dyslexia are the end-product of less reading, when compared with typical readers, and are not the cause of their struggles with reading," said Guinevere Eden, director, Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University; past-president, International Dyslexia Association.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 6, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Dyslexia: When spelling problems impair writing acquisition
(CNRS) Several studies have sought to identify the source of the problems encountered by individuals with dyslexia when they read. Little attention has been paid to the mechanisms involved in writing. Researchers decided to look at the purely motor aspects of writing in children diagnosed with dyslexia. Their results show that orthographic processing in children with dyslexia is so laborious that it can modify or impair writing skills, despite the absence of dysgraphia in these children.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Prevalence and gender ratio of dyslexia in Greek adolescents and its association with parental history and brain injury - Vlachos F, Avramidis E, Dedousis G, Chalmpe M, Ntalla I, Giannakopoulou M.
Dyslexia is the most common and carefully studied of the learning disabilities in school-age children. It is characterized by a marked impairment in the development of reading skills, and affects a large number of people. The prevalence of dyslexia shows c...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - August 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

The association between childhood physical abuse and dyslexia: findings from a population-based study - Fuller-Thomson E, Hooper SR.
The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between a history of dyslexia and childhood physical abuse in a large population-based epidemiological sample. It was hypothesized that the prevalence of dyslexia would be significantly higher i...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - July 4, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Impaired driving performance as evidence of a magnocellular deficit in dyslexia and visual stress - Fisher C, Chekaluk E, Irwin J.
High comorbidity and an overlap in symptomology have been demonstrated between dyslexia and visual stress. Several researchers have hypothesized an underlying or causal influence that may account for this relationship. The magnocellular theory of dyslexia ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 5, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

Utilizing the ecological integration model to understand parental abuse of children with dyslexia - Hurford DP, Renner LP, Nitcher SP, Fender AC.
Fuller-Thomson and Hooper recently found that 35% of adults with dyslexia reported that they had experienced physical abuse as children compared to 7% of adults who did not have dyslexia. Belsky's Ecological Integration Model of Child Abuse which consists ...
Source: SafetyLit - June 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Identifying dyslexia risk for sport-related concussion management: sensitivity and specificity of self-report and rapid naming - Wiseheart R, Wellington R.
BACKGROUND: Dyslexia is the most common type of learning disability and studies have shown that student-athletes with learning disabilities sustain more concussions than their non-affected peers. However, current methods of dyslexia identification in colle...
Source: SafetyLit - May 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Psychiatric comorbidity among children and adolescents with dyslexia - Darweesh AM, Elserogy YM, Khalifa H, Gabra RH, El-Ghafour MA.
One of the most consistent findings in childhood psychopathology literature is that children with dyslexia frequently presented with additional psychiatric disorders. Over 60% of children with dyslexia meets criteria for at least one additional diagnosis....
Source: SafetyLit - August 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Brain stimulation reduces dyslexia deficits
(Universit é de Gen è ve) Dyslexia is a frequent disorder of reading acquisition that affects up to 10% of the population. Although several possible causes have been proposed for dyslexia, the predominant one is a phonological deficit associated with changes in rhythmic or repetitive patterns of neural activity in a sound-processing region of the brain. Neuroscientists from the University of Geneva have demonstrated a causal relationship between brain oscillations and the ability to process phonemes.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Difficulty learning nonsense words may indicate a child's high risk of dyslexia
(Aalto University) A combined brain-scanning and behaviour study in Finland has explored dyslexia in 7& 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left hemisphere compared to the control group - the area of the brain that specializes in processing language and speech. A related study by the group also found that self-confidence in reading ability helps young readers overcome some of the symptoms of dyslexia
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Funding for study of Autism, Dyslexia and ADHD
(University of Exeter) A research team led by the University of Exeter Medical School has received funding of over £150,000 to investigate whether there is an increase in the number of children with behavior-related conditions such as autism, dyslexia or ADHD, or whether the increase can be explained by better recognition and diagnosis.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 10, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Yale researchers unravel genetics of dyslexia and language impairment
(Yale University) A new study of the genetic origins of dyslexia and other learning disabilities could allow for earlier diagnoses and more successful interventions, according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine. Many students now are not diagnosed until high school, at which point treatments are less effective.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 13, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Neglect dyslexia: A matter of "good looking" - Primativo S, Arduino LS, De Luca M, Daini R, Martelli M.
Brain-damaged patients with right-sided unilateral spatial neglect (USN) often make left-sided errors in reading single words or pseudowords (neglect dyslexia, ND). We propose that both left neglect and low fixation accuracy account for reading errors in n...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - July 23, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news