Abstract
Some children have a very hard time learning to read. In spite of normal intelligence and no special hearing or vision problems, they still read very slowly and with many errors. These problems persist even after they become adults: their reading improves with practice but less than that of their peers. This persistent reading difficulty is called developmental dyslexia. It is still not clear what causes dyslexia, and in this article we describe findings from our lab and our interpretation regarding the basis of dyslexia. We found that people with dyslexia benefit less than people without dyslexia from repetition of sounds, and that they behave as if they are less familiar with common syllables and word structures. Using brain scanning equipment, we also found that brains of people with dyslexia “forget” sounds faster. This might be the reason that they do not benefit from repetition as much as people without dyslexia.
Highlights
Developmental dyslexia is a specific learning disorder which hinders the acquisition of reading skills
Researchers have been searching for the cause of dyslexia for many years, and in this article we suggest that the main di culty in dyslexia is less e cient usage of prior knowledge kids.frontiersin.org
The goal of our studies is to understand these processes in depth and describe them computationally for the regular population as well as for special populations
Summary
In spite of normal intelligence and no special hearing or vision problems, they still read very slowly and with many errors. These problems persist even after they become adults: their reading improves with practice but less than that of their peers. This persistent reading di culty is called developmental dyslexia. We found that brains of people with dyslexia “forget” sounds faster This might be the reason that they do not benefit from repetition as much as people without dyslexia
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