A challenge about the diagnosis of Dyslexia

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Our link for today shows a professor claiming that there is no agreement on what actually the diagnoses of dyslexia is and that there are no special interventions for dyslexia but the interventions recommended are what you should do for all children. He further argues that Middle class parents abuse the system to get extra resources for their kids and Public schools ignore the diagnoses due to lack of funds.

Well that may stir the discussion quite a bit.

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Mechanisms of developmental disruption in neocortex in dyslexia.

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Dyslexia and epilepsy

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Does Dyslexia also impact movement?

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Dyslexia shows its symptoms also in movements. This is a discovery made by a team of Italian researchers at theUniversity of Milan Bicocca and published in Human Movement Science. According to experts, that have analyzed the handwriting of a group of children with learning disabilities, the duration in writing every single letter of a word is not constant. It varies according to the dimension and speediness of written speech.

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Dyslexia not linked to eyesight, says study

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“Some practitioners feel that vision impairments may be associated with dyslexia and should be treated. However, our study results show that the majority of dyslexic children have entirely normal vision on the tests we used,” said Cathy Williams, lead author and a paediatric ophthalmologist.

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