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Start intervention for Dyslexia as early as pre-school!

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As early as first grade, dyslexic readers can have much lower reading scores and verbal IQs compared with typical readers, suggesting that earlier intervention is needed to help students from falling behind, according to study recently published in the Journal of Pediatrics.

The researchers — from Yale University and the University of California, Davis — found that the gap between dyslexic and typical readers, which often shows up in elementary school, persisted into adolescence.

The study found that the gap didn’t increase over time, but instead was already present when students were in first grade.

 

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Eary intervention necessary for Dyslexia

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“If the persistent achievement gap between dyslexic and typical readers is to be narrowed, or even closed, reading interventions must be implemented early, when children are still developing the basic foundation for reading acquisition,” said Emilio Ferrer, a UC Davis psychology professor, in a news release.

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Prediction for Dyslexia

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A study claims to have found neuroanatomical markers (differences in cortical thickness) of dyslexia in pre-readers, that predict dyslexia status 5 years ahead.
This would be an extraordinary result, however as pointed out by Kraft et al. (2015), the claim is based on a comparison of only 10 control and 7 dyslexic children, which should give this study insufficient power to detect any decent-size difference.

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Dyslexia in Arabic

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Dr Paterson and a team of co-researchers, including Prof Timothy Jordan, a psychologist at Zayed University in Dubai, have just released findings that help to pinpoint how people see words in Arabic and how reading methods compare with those of English. They analysed how readers fixate, or direct their eyes at, words, studying where along in a word fixation takes place and how long it lasts.

The work is not just of interest to academics, as knowledge of the processes of how the eyes see words in Arabic could help lead to a greater understanding of conditions such as dyslexia, in which people find it difficult to recognise and to spell words.

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