Copyright 2010 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/dyslexia/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3wRbhttp://mnt.to/f/3wRbReading and retaining information. That's the challenge faced by the one in five children who have some form of dyslexia. Overcoming that challenge could soon become easier for educators and children thanks to pioneering design research from the University of Cincinnati's internationally ranked College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)...Dyslexia Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3vGyhttp://mnt.to/f/3vGyContrary to popular belief, some very smart, accomplished people cannot read well. This unexpected difficulty in reading in relation to intelligence, education and professional status is called dyslexia, and researchers at Yale School of Medicine and University of California Davis, have presented new data that explain how otherwise bright and intelligent people struggle to read...Dyslexia Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3vHJhttp://mnt.to/f/3vHJ"The incidence of individuals with a mathematics learning disability is between 6 - 7% of the population." Since there are more than 300 million individuals in the United States, up to 21 million men, women, and children may be affected by this disorder...Dyslexia Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3t7thttp://mnt.to/f/3t7tThe vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, according to new research from Northwestern University...Dyslexia Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3t7nhttp://mnt.to/f/3t7nNew research reveals that children with developmental dyslexia have a deficit in a brain mechanism involved in the perception of speech in a noisy environment...Dyslexia Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3s65http://mnt.to/f/3s65Everyone listens to music at least now and then. For many of us, music is a casual experience, a moment's entertainment. But for those who practiced in a school orchestra or who play a musical instrument professionally, the musical experience can be something more...Neurology / Neuroscience Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3rLKhttp://mnt.to/f/3rLKA unique study of former guerrillas in Colombia has helped scientists redefine their understanding of the key regions of the brain involved in literacy. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, has enabled the researchers to see how brain structure changed after learning to read...Dyslexia Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3rDbhttp://mnt.to/f/3rDbChinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers. Those differences can be seen in the brain and in the performance of Chinese children on visual and oral language tasks, reveals a report published online on October 12th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication...Dyslexia Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3py7http://mnt.to/f/3py7A new candidate gene for Specific Language Impairment has been identified by a research team directed by Mabel Rice at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with Shelley Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Javier Gayán of Neocodex, Seville, Spain...Neurology / Neuroscience Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3mV4http://mnt.to/f/3mV4As the UK enters a summer of discontent, one company has a vision to make the outlook decidedly brighter - by looking at life through blue-tinted spectacles. Wearing blue lenses has a calming effect, can reduce appetite and even help with dyslexia...Eye Health / Blindness Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3kJWhttp://mnt.to/f/3kJWParts of the right hemisphere of the brains of people with dyslexia have been shown to differ from those of normal readers. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to compare the two groups, and were able to associate the neurological differences found with different language difficulties within the dyslexic group...Dyslexia Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3jwChttp://mnt.to/f/3jwCResearchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rutgers University in Newark have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how we see the world with their discovery that visual input obtained during eye movements is being processed by the brain but blocked from awareness...Eye Health / Blindness Mon, 04 May 2009 09:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3gRHhttp://mnt.to/f/3gRHYale School of Medicine scientist Jeffrey R. Gruen, M.D., has received a $5.2 million grant from the Manton Foundation to further his research on the genetics of dyslexia. Gruen's discovery of a gene involved in dyslexia was named one of the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2005 by the journal Science...Dyslexia Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3gMzhttp://mnt.to/f/3gMzNeuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that an area known to be important for reading in the left visual cortex contains neurons that are specialized to process written words as whole word units...Dyslexia Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3gtHhttp://mnt.to/f/3gtHChildren's speech and language disorders caused by unknown factors are common. The disorders vary in type and manifest themselves differently in different ages. Delayed motor development is widely known to coexist with speech and language disorders...Pediatrics / Children's Health Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3fpGhttp://mnt.to/f/3fpGAs we look at the world around us, images flicker into our brains like so many disparate pixels on a computer screen that change every time our eyes move, which is several times a second. Yet we don't perceive the world as a constantly flashing computer display...Neurology / Neuroscience Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3dfDhttp://mnt.to/f/3dfDBy peering into the brains of people with dyslexia compared to normal readers, a study published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has shed new light on the roots of the learning disability, which affects four to ten percent of the population...Dyslexia Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3br2http://mnt.to/f/3br2It is possible to improve writing skills for those with aphasia with the aid of computerised writing aids. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Aphasia affects the ability to understand and use spoken language, and the ability to read and write...IT / Internet / E-mail Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/38Qfhttp://mnt.to/f/38Qf Parental education is a strong predictor of socioeconomic status and children's educational environment. Nevertheless, some children continue to experience reading failure in spite of high parental education and support for learning to read. University of Colorado at Boulder psychologists Angela Friend, John C. DeFries and Richard K...Pediatrics / Children's Health Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/37yshttp://mnt.to/f/37ysThe next time you are reading a book, or even as you read this article, consider the words that you are seeing. How do you recognize these words? Substantial research has shown that while reading, we recognize words by their letters and not by the general shape of the word. However, it was largely unknown how we differentiate one letter from another...Dyslexia Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/35z6http://mnt.to/f/35z6Dyslexia Awareness Week is to be marked in East Kent with a workshop where experts will present basic strategies and tools to help untap the potential of people who feel dyslexia is holding them back in life...Dyslexia Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3589http://mnt.to/f/3589Letters are warped, syllables left out about four percent of the German population are dyslexics. Scientists seek to spot responsible genes and try to develop a genetic screening test to support affected children at an earlier age. Scool? Skuul? Or perhaps shcool? The beginning is a delicate time especially in reading and writing...Dyslexia Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/34fQhttp://mnt.to/f/34fQAlthough school has been back for less than a month, it is likely that many children are already experiencing frustration and confusion in math class. Research at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada could change the way we view math difficulties and how we assist children who face those problems...Dyslexia Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/32zkhttp://mnt.to/f/32zk Atypical characteristics of children's linguistic development are early signs of the risk of developing reading and writing disabilities, or dyslexia. New research points to preventive exercises as an effective means to tackle the challenges children face when learning to read...Dyslexia Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/ZTrhttp://mnt.to/f/ZTrA new Carnegie Mellon University brain imaging study of dyslexic students and other poor readers shows that the brain can permanently rewire itself and overcome reading deficits, if students are given 100 hours of intensive remedial instruction...Dyslexia