This study reanalyzed data collected by Heymans and Wiersma in 1908 in response to a questionnaire sent to secondary school teachers in the Netherlands. The 81-item questionnaire asked teachers about the characteristics of the behavior and character of their students (numbering close to 4,000). The reanalysis involved 72 questions that provided…

To investigate underlying learning mechanisms in relation to the development of dyslexia, event-related potentials to visual standards were recorded in five-year-old pre-reading children at-risk for familial dyslexia (n=24) and their controls (n=14). At the end of second grade the children aged 8 years were regrouped into three groups according to…