Copyright 2009 Medical News Today Latest Dyslexia News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/dyslexia/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170738.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170738.php The 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170733.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170733.php New research reveals that children with developmental dyslexia have a deficit in a brain mechanism involved in the perception of speech in a noisy environment. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 12 issue of the journal Neuron, provides the first direct evidence that the human auditory brainstem exhibits remarkable moment-to-moment plasticity and undergoes a fine tuning that is strongly associated with noise exclusion. Dyslexia Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168269.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168269.php Everyone 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167468.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167468.php A 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. Language is a uniquely human ability that evolved at some point in the six million years since humans and chimpanzees diverged. Dyslexia Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167147.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167147.php Chinese-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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/162146.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/162146.php A 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. The finding, reported in the current issue of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, was discovered by examining genes previously identified as candidate genes for reading impairments or speech sound disorders. Neurology / Neuroscience Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/158223.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/158223.php As 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. Now online optics specialists Ciliary Blue are offering blue views to cheer up a nation blighted by recession, redundancies and bank balances in the red. Eye Health / Blindness Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155375.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155375.php Parts 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/152468.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/152468.php Researchers 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148503.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148503.php Yale 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148301.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148301.php Neuroscientists 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. Although some theories of reading as well as neuropsychological and experimental data have argued for the existence of a neural representation for whole written real words (an "orthographic lexicon"), evidence for this has been elusive. Dyslexia Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147572.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147572.php Children'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. However, hardly any attention has been paid to children in whom delayed speech development is associated with learning to walk unassisted at an early stage. Pediatrics / Children's Health Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/144974.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/144974.php As 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142228.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142228.php By 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/137837.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/137837.php It 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/134026.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/134026.php 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/130949.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/130949.php The 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 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126179.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/126179.php Dyslexia 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. The workshop 'Could Dyslexia be holding you back! Explore the journey to open horizons' will take place Canterbury Christ Church University's Hall Place Enterprise Centre, Harbledown, Canterbury, on 5th November. Dyslexia Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125153.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125153.php Letters 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. Twisted letters or other beginner´s mistakes disappear quite fast as learning progresses. Dyslexia Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123030.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123030.php Although 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. Daniel Ansari is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Western. Dyslexia Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/118987.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/118987.php 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. The results achieved at the Centre of Excellence in Learning and Motivation Research were presented at the Academy of Finland's science breakfast on 21 August. Dyslexia Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/117375.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/117375.php A 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 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/111010.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/111010.php Just as a disciplined exercise regimen helps human muscles become stronger and perform better, specialized workouts for the brain can boost cognitive skills, according to Carnegie Mellon scientists. Neurology / Neuroscience Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/101319.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/101319.php Children and young people must be given the support they need to overcome speech, language and communications difficulties so they enjoy the same opportunities to learn, socialise and succeed as anyone else, according to an interim report presented by John Bercow MP to the Secretaries of State for Health and for Children, Schools and Families. Pediatrics / Children's Health