ReviewBrain sciences2018
What is Developmental Dyslexia?
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.
- The efficacy of rhythmic training for enhancing language and reading skills in children: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Visual and Oculomotor Function in Developmental Dyslexia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026Pooled it
- Emerging technologies and neuroscience-based approaches in dyslexia: a narrative review toward integrative and personalized solutions.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Dyslexia treatment studies: A systematic review and suggestions on testing treatment efficacy with small effects and small samples.Behavior research methods · 2021Pooled it
- The effect of online visual games on visual perception, oculomotor, and balance skills of children with developmental dyslexia during the COVID-19 pandemic.International ophthalmology · 2023Trial
- Flickering lenses enhance reading performance through placebo effect.Psychological research · 2025Article
- What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding?Dyslexia (Chichester, England) · 2025Article
- Teachers' Perceptions and Preparedness for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Students with Developmental Dyslexia: A Systematic Review.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Review
- The ReadFree tool for the identification of poor readers: a validation study based on a machine learning approach in monolingual and minority-language children.Annals of dyslexia · 2023Article
- Macular Anatomy Differs in Dyslexic Subjects.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- From vision to cognition: potential contributions of cerebral visual impairment to neurodevelopmental disorders.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- Identifying the risk of dyslexia in bilingual children: The potential of language-dependent and language-independent tasks.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Probabilistic Decision-Making in Children With Dyslexia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Context and target recollection for words and pictures in young adults with developmental dyslexia.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Developmental Dyslexia: Disorder or Specialization in Exploration?Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Brain Source Correlates of Speech Perception and Reading Processes in Children With and Without Reading Difficulties.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Silent versus Reading Out Loud modes: An eye-tracking study.Journal of eye movement research · 2021Article
- Thalamus is a common locus of reading, arithmetic, and IQ: Analysis of local intrinsic functional properties.Brain and language · 2020Article
- Pursuit eye movements in dyslexic children: evidence for an immaturity of brain oculomotor structures?Journal of eye movement research · 2020Article
- Double Trouble: Visual and Phonological Impairments in English Dyslexic Readers.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Until the 1950s, developmental dyslexia was defined as a hereditary visual disability, selectively affecting reading without compromising oral or non-verbal reasoning skills. This changed radically after the development of the phonological theory of dyslexia; this not only ruled out any role for visual processing in its aetiology, but it also cast doubt on the use of discrepancy between reading and reasoning skills as a criterion for diagnosing it. Here I argue that this theory is set at too high a cognitive level to be explanatory; we need to understand the pathophysiological visual and auditory mechanisms that cause children's phonological problems. I discuss how the 'magnocellular theory' attempts to do this in terms of slowed and error prone temporal processing which leads to dyslexics' defective visual and auditory sequencing when attempting to read. I attempt to deal with the criticisms of this theory and show how it leads to a number of successful ways of helping dyslexic children to overcome their reading difficulties.
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