Promise of ChromaGen lenses for dyslexia a bit blurry

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We rarely stop to think about it, but reading is an amazing accomplishment. It turns markings on a page or a screen into coherent thoughts. It’s a complicated process: The eyes see a procession of letters, and the brain turns them into words.

The reading process is challenging for people with dyslexia. The disorder isn’t well understood, but there seems to be a communication breakdown between the eyes and the brain. Some people with dyslexia have trouble associating letters with sounds and words. Others say that words and letters look blurry, distorted or jumbled.

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While it’s most often associated with reading difficulties, dyslexia can also impact a child’s writing and spelling. In this Children’s Channel video podcast, Lisa Stanford, PhD, director of the Division of Neurobehavioral Health at Akron Children’s Hospital, discusses the diagnosis and treatment of this life-long neurological condition.

 

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Dyslexic adults have more trouble if background noise levels are high

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Dyslexia affects up to 17.5% of the population, but its cause remains somewhat unknown. A report published in the Nov. 23 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE supports the hypothesis that the symptoms of dyslexia, including difficulties in reading, are at least partly due to difficulty excluding excess background information like noise.

In the study of 37 undergraduate students, the researchers, led by Rachel Beattie of the University of Southern California, found that the  performed significantly worse than the control group only when there were high levels of background noise.

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Dyslexia may explain my school failure, says Annabel Heseltine

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Annabel Heseltine, the daughter of Tory grandee Lord Heseltine, will tell the Girls’ Schools Association that although boys are disproportionately identified with dyslexia, research suggests the learning difficulty is as common in girls.

Ms Heseltine, whose daughter and three sons as well as her brother and father all have the condition, believes she too may be dyslexic and is considering having a diagnostic test.

“It was only when I came across some old school reports of mine and saw various comments about lack of development, lack of co-ordination of ideas and an inability to communicate properly, that I thought I may well have mild dyslexia,” said the 48 year-old, editor of First Eleven magazine, for parents with children in independent schools.

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Words Recognized by Looks, Not Sounds

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Skilled readers do not have to sound out words every time they see them, a new study indicates.

Instead, once they know a word, they can access a “visual dictionary” in their brains to recognize it every time they see it, said researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. They suggested these findings could provide new insight into certain reading disorders.

“One camp of neuroscientists believes that we access both the phonology and the visual perception of a word as we read them and that the area or areas of the brain that do one also do the other, but our study proves this isn’t the case,” lead investigator Laurie Glezer, a postdoctoral research fellow, said in a medical center news release.

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