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Maree Flaherty; Jessica Crippa; Irina Sim; Manjushree Bhate; Chian Chiang Nicholas Chow; Deepa Taranath; Glen Gole – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
Specific learning disabilities affect the brain's ability to process verbal and non-verbal information efficiently and accurately. The most common learning disability is reading disability which includes dyslexia. Evidence supports that dyslexia is a language-based disorder. The core deficit of dyslexia is the phonological component of language…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Perceptual Impairments
Park, George E. – J Learning Disabilities, 1969
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Exceptional Child Research, Eyes, Learning Disabilities
Keeney, Arthur H. – Sight Saving Rev, 1969
Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 15, 1969).
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Exceptional Child Education, Eyes, Learning Disabilities
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Whiteaker, Janet; Zolg, Carolyn – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2001
Describes Intermittent Central Suppression (ICS), a treatable eye malfunction that can make reading difficult. Reports that some students with ICS are not diagnosed through standard vision acuity tests and are misdiagnosed as learning disabled. Presents a study that found that students who were treated for ICS stayed in school longer than students…
Descriptors: Corrective Reading, Eyes, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities