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Vagge, Aldo; Cavanna, Margherita; Traverso, Carlo Enrico; Iester, Michele – Annals of Dyslexia, 2015
The aims of this study were to analyze the relationship between dyslexia and eye movements and to assess whether this method can be added to the workup of dyslexic patients. The sample was comprised of 11 children with a diagnosis of dyslexia and 11 normal between 8 and 13 years of age. All subjects underwent orthoptic evaluation, ophthalmological…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Patients, Visual Impairments, Eye Movements
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Obrzut, John E.; Mahoney, Emery B. – Brain and Cognition, 2011
Dichotic listening (DL) techniques have been used extensively as a non-invasive procedure to assess language lateralization among children with and without learning disabilities (LD), and with individuals who have other auditory system related brain disorders. Results of studies using DL have indicated that language is lateralized in children with…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Auditory Stimuli, Learning Disabilities, Attention
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Han, Zaizhu; Bi, Yanchao – Brain and Language, 2009
The oral spelling process for logographic languages such as Chinese is intrinsically different from alphabetic languages. In Chinese only a subset of orthographic components are pronounceable and their phonological identities (i.e., component names) do not always correspond to the sound of the whole characters. We show that such phonological…
Descriptors: Spelling, Chinese, Learning Disabilities, Lateral Dominance