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Developmental dyslexia: specific phonological deficit or general sensorimotor dysfunction?

Franck Ramus
- 01 Apr 2003 - 
- Vol. 13, Iss: 2, pp 212-218
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The authors found that sensory and motor impairments play only a limited role in a causal explanation of specific reading disability, and that dyslexia can be explained by either sensory and/or motor deficits.
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This article is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.The article was published on 2003-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 769 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dyslexia & Phonological deficit.

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Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment: same or different?

Dorothy V. M. Bishop, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2004 - 
TL;DR: The authors suggest that 2 dimensions of impairment are needed to conceptualize the relationship between these disorders and to capture phenotypic features that are important for identifying neurobiologically and etiologically coherent subgroups.
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From single to multiple deficit models of developmental disorders

Bruce F. Pennington
- 01 Sep 2006 - 
TL;DR: This paper describes how a multiple cognitive deficit model of developmental disorders evolved out of attempts to understand two comorbidities, those between dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and between dysLexia and speech sound disorder (SSD).
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Developmental trajectory of number acuity reveals a severe impairment in developmental dyscalculia

Manuela Piazza, +7 more
- 01 Jul 2010 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that number acuity improves with age in typically developing children, establishing for the first time a clear association between dyscalculia and impaired "number sense", and may open up new horizons for the early diagnosis and rehabilitation of mathematical learning deficits.
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What phonological deficit

Franck Ramus, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: It is proposed that individuals with dyslexia have a deficit in access to phonological representations and it is speculated that a similar notion might also adequately describe the nature of other associated cognitive deficits when present.
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Relations Among Speech, Language, and Reading Disorders

Bruce F. Pennington, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: It is found that while overlap exists at all three levels, it varies by comorbidity subtype, and the relations among these three disorders are complex and not fully understood.
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Auditory temporal perception, phonics, and reading disabilities in children ☆

Paula Tallal, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1980 - 
TL;DR: The hypothesis that some reading impairments are related to low-level auditory perceptual dysfunction that affects the ability to learn to use phonics skills adequately is discussed.
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Theories of developmental dyslexia: insights from a multiple case study of dyslexic adults

Franck Ramus, +6 more
- 01 Apr 2003 - 
TL;DR: The present data support the phonological theory of dyslexia, while acknowledging the presence of additional sensory and motor disorders in certain individuals.
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Developmental dyslexia: Four consecutive patients with cortical anomalies

Albert M. Galaburda, +4 more
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TL;DR: The neuroanatomical findings in 4 consecutively studied brains of men with developmental dyslexia are discussed with reference to developmental cortical anomalies, cerebral asymmetries, reorganization of the brain after early lesions, and the association between learning disorders, left handedness, and diseases of the immune system.
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Language comprehension in language-learning impaired children improved with acoustically modified speech

Paula Tallal, +8 more
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
TL;DR: A speech processing algorithm was developed to create more salient versions of the rapidly changing elements in the acoustic waveform of speech that have been shown to be deficiently processed by language-learning impaired (LLI) children.
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Language comprehension in language-learning impaired children improved with acoustically modified speech

Paula Tallal, +8 more
- 05 Jan 1996 - 
TL;DR: A speech processing algorithm was developed to create more salient versions of the rapidly changing elements in the acoustic waveform of speech that have been shown to be deficiently processed by language-learning impaired (LLI) children as discussed by the authors.
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Q1. What are the contributions in "Developmental dyslexia: specific phonological deficit or general sensorimotor dysfunction? " ?

Dyslexia research is now facing an intriguing paradox: it is becoming increasingly clear that a significant proportion of dyslexics present sensory and motor deficits ; however, as this “ sensorimotor syndrome ” is being studied in greater detail, it is also becoming increasingly clear that sensory and motor deficits will play only a limited role in a general causal explanation of specific reading disability.