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What is Developmental Dyslexia?
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Until the 1950s, developmental dyslexia was defined as a hereditary visual disability, selectively affecting reading without compromising oral or non-verbal reasoning skills. This changed radically after the development of the phonological theory of dyslexia; this not only ruled out any role for visual processing in its aetiology, but it also cast doubt on the use of discrepancy between reading and reasoning skills as a criterion for diagnosing it. Here I argue that this theory is set at too ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Medical Research Council
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Oxford University
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Rodin Remediation Trust
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Esmee Fairbairn Trust
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Brain Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 26
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-02-02
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2076-3425
- Pmid:
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29401712
- Source identifiers:
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823270
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:823270
- Deposit date:
- 2018-04-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Stein, J
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
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© 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access
article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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