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Conclusions The current study, therefore, is an attempt to identify children with learning disorders and explore the prevalence of the problem and etiological factors e.g., family environment, social factors and developmental issues of child and associated co-morbidities. More studies with larger sample size should be undertaken to get accurate picture of these disorders.There is also need for some community based programme to raise the level of awareness and knowledge about these disorders in general population. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original ArticlePages 1-5DOI 10.1007/s12098-012-0699-7Authors Madan Gopal Choudhary, Department of Pediatric Medicine, S.P. Medical College and AG Hospital, Bikaner, 334001 Rajasthan, IndiaAdeesh ... [Link] [Cache]

Finnish scientists have found that a rare dyslexia-linked genetic variant of the ROBO1 gene decreases normal crossing of auditory pathways in the human brain. The weaker the expression of the gene is, the more abnormal is the midline crossing. The results link, for the first time, a dyslexia-susceptibility gene to a specific sensory function of the human brain. This collaborative study between Aalto University and University of Helsinki in Finland and the Karolinska Insitutet in Sweden was published in The Journal of Neuroscience... Source: Health News from Medical News Today MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find the best January Sales in the ... [Link] [Cache]

This study used Near-Infrared Spectroscopy NIRS imaging to measure the regional cerebral blood volume BV and the changes of cerebral activation in the left prefrontal cortex of 12 Chinese dyslexic children and their 12 age-matched normal controls during the Paced Visual Serial Addition Test PVSAT . Results showed that the scores of PVSAT of dyslexic children were significantly lower than those of the normal children t=3.33, P<0.01 . The activations of the left prefrontal cortex in the normal group were significantly greater than those of dyslexic children all P<0.01 . Our results indicated that Chinese dyslexia had a general deficiency ... [Link] [Cache]

Aalto University Finnish scientists have found that a rare dyslexia-linked genetic variant of the ROBO1 gene decreases normal crossing of auditory pathways in the human brain. The weaker the expression of the gene is, the more abnormal is the midline crossing. The results link, for the first time, a dyslexia-susceptibility gene to a specific sensory function of the human brain. Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health [Link] [Cache]

Authors: Snowling MJ, Hulme C Abstract Against a backdrop of research on individual differences in reading disorders, this review considers a range of effective interventions to promote reading and language skills evaluated by our group. The review begins by contrasting the reading profiles seen in dyslexia and reading comprehension impairment and then argues that different interventions will be required. It is well established that effective interventions for decoding deficits dyslexia involve work on letter-sound knowledge, phonological awareness and reading practice to reinforce emergent skills. In contrast, effective interventions for reading comprehension difficulties involve training to promote oral language skills and ... [Link] [Cache]

Conclusions: Our results provide a baseline for interpreting the higher incidence of language impairment e.g. dyslexia, autism, specific language impairment in males, and the subcortical deficits associated with these disorders.Significance: These results parallel the subcortical encoding patterns that are documented for good and poor readers in that poor readers differ from good readers on encoding fast but not slow components of speech. This parallel may thus help to explain the higher incidence of reading impairment in males compared to females. Source: Clinical Neurophysiology [Link] [Cache]

Ivanhoe Newswire -- Approximately five to seventeen percent of children are diagnosed with developmental dyslexia, dyslexia that is not caused by brain trauma. Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com [Link] [Cache]

This study sought to examine factors that are predictive of future developmental dyslexia among a group of 5‐year‐old Chinese children at risk for dyslexia, including 62 children with a sibling who had been previously diagnosed with dyslexia and 52 children who manifested clinical at‐risk factors in aspects of language according to testing by paediatricians. The age‐5 performances on various literacy and cognitive tasks, gender and group status familial risk or language delayed were used to predict developmental dyslexia 2 years later using logistic regression analysis. Results showed that greater risk of dyslexia was related to slower rapid automatized naming, lower ... [Link] [Cache]

ConclusionsSelf‐report scales of reading and of attention difficulties are useful for identifying adults with reading and attention difficulties which may confer risks on their children of related problems. It is important for research following children at family risk of dyslexia to be aware of these effects. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Source: Dyslexia MedWorm Sponsor Message: Please support the Doctors In Chains campaign for the medics tortured and sentenced for up to 15 years in Bahrain. #FreeDoctors [Link] [Cache]

MedPage Today -- Young children at risk for developing dyslexia showed abnormalities on functional MRI brain scans even before they began learning to read, researchers found. Source: MedPage Today Neurology [Link] [Cache]

A team from Children's Hospital Boston said they could see signs of dyslexia on brain scans in children as young as four years old - and younger children are most responsive to intervention. Source: the Mail online | Health [Link] [Cache]

Title: Dyslexia's Brain Changes May Occur Before Kids Learn to ReadCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/23/2012 6:06:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 1/24/2012 Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find the best January Sales in the UK. [Link] [Cache]

Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, the researchers say. Findings appear this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... Source: Health News from Medical News Today [Link] [Cache]

CHICAGO Reuters - Instead of waiting for a child to experience reading delays, scientists now say they can identify the reading problem even before children start school, long before they become labeled as poor students and begin to lose confidence in themselves. Source: Reuters: Health [Link] [Cache]

Study findings might help identify at-risk children at younger age Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Learning Disorders Source: MedlinePlus Health News [Link] [Cache]

Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, the researchers say... [Link] [Cache]

Eighty-five percent of children's learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. When they do, the vision screenings they typically receive can detect only one or two conditions... [Link] [Cache]

This study takes an alternative approach to examine the heterogeneity of developmental dyslexia using taxometric classification techniques. These methods were used with a large sample of 671 children ages 6–8 who were diagnosed with severe reading disorders. Latent characteristics of the sample are assessed in regard to posited subtypes with phonological deficits and naming speed deficits, thus extending prior work by addressing whether these deficits embody separate classes of individuals. Findings support separate taxa of dyslexia with and without phonological deficits. Different latent structure for naming speed deficits was found depending on the definitional criterion used to define dyslexia. Non‐phonologically ... [Link] [Cache]

Authors: Heim S, Wehnelt A, Grande M, Huber W, Amunts K Abstract We investigated the neural basis of lexical access to written stimuli in adult dyslexics and normal readers via the Lexicality effect pseudowords>words and the Frequency effect low>high frequent words . The participants read aloud German words with low or high lexical frequency or pseudowords while being scanned. In both groups, both Lexicality effect and Frequency effect involved Broca's region areas 44 and 45 . Whereas the effects were stronger for dyslexic than normal readers in area 44, area 45 showed the reverse pattern. These findings mimic recent results ... [Link] [Cache]

CONCLUSIONS: The present findings indicate that behavioral regulation skills play an important role in predicting social outcomes among children at risk for language difficulties. Furthermore, it is suggested that various aspects of social functioning may be influenced differently by self-regulation skills, and that predictive relationships vary with the degree of language development deficits and accompanying risks. PMID: 22215033 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR [Link] [Cache]

SummaryPurpose: Children with rolandic epilepsy RE experience difficulties with reading, language, and attention. Their siblings are at high risk of dyslexia but are not otherwise known to have neurocognitive deficits. We therefore sought evidence for an RE‐associated neurocognitive endophenotype.Methods: Thirteen probands male‐to‐female ratio 9:4 and 11 epilepsy‐free siblings male‐to‐female ratio 5:6 completed a neurocognitive evaluation within the domains of reading, language, and attention. Frequencies of impairment were compared, and mean standardized scores of children with RE and their siblings were each compared against population means.Key Findings: Frequency of impairment in each domain was comparable for siblings and probands: 9% of ... [Link] [Cache]

Authors: Suárez-Coalla P, Cuetos F Abstract Cross-linguistic studies suggest that the orthographic system determines the reading performance of dyslexic children. In opaque orthographies, the fundamental feature of developmental dyslexia is difficulty in reading accuracy, whereas slower reading speed is more common in transparent orthographies. The aim of the current study was to examine the extent to which different variables of words affect reaction times and articulation times in developmental dyslexics. A group of 19 developmental dyslexics of different ages and an age-matched group of 19 children without reading disabilities completed a word naming task. The children were asked to read ... [Link] [Cache]

This study used a novel chromatic flicker perce... Source: SafetyLit: All Unduplicated [Link] [Cache]

All children with dyslexia should be eligible for special education services that will help them learn to read, concludes new research from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. The findings suggest that the traditional discrepancy model used as the criterion for classifying a child as learning disabled is no longer valid to determine which children will benefit from specialized reading instruction. Source: Modern Medicine MedWorm Sponsor Message: Please support the Doctors In Chains campaign for the medics tortured and sentenced for up to 15 years in Bahrain. #FreeDoctors [Link] [Cache]

People with dyslexia often struggle with the ability to accurately decode and identify what they read. Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption and how it interferes with reading comprehension has not been fully explained. Now, new research published by Cell Press in the December 22 issue of the journal Neuron finds that a specific abnormality in the processing of auditory signals accounts for the main symptoms of dyslexia... Source: Health News from Medical News Today MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find the best January Sales in the UK. [Link] [Cache]