Prediction for Dyslexia

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Dyslexia: News from the web:

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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