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Dyslexia may result from impairment of a different linguistic system than previously thought, according to new research.

Et stigende antal studerende snubler i bøgerne på den videregående uddannelse og ender med diagnosen ordblind.

Sådan ser skriften ud, som har hjulpet Firmaet LingApps i Kolding til at udvikle en speciel ordblindeapp, som kan få stor global succes.

Ordblindhed, der ikke bliver anerkendt, er et omfattende problem, lyder det fra forældre og lærere.

Flere skoler og kommuner vil ikke anerkende, at børn kan være ordblinde. Et kæmpesvigt, siger ministeren.

Mange ordblinde børn har adfærdsmæssige problemer og kæmper med blandt andet depression, angst og sociale problemer. Problemerne kan have mindst lige så stor betydning for børnenes liv som deres ordblindhed, viser norsk forskning.

Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, the researchers say. Findings appear this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

En ordblind designer hjælper sig selv og andre til at læse med skrifttypen Dyslexie.

1,8 milliarder kroner. Så meget kan der spares på de offentlige finanser, hvis samfundet satser på at øge indsatsen over for ordblinde og gøre dem til mere selvhjulpne læsere. Det viser nye beregninger foretaget for nationalbiblioteket Nota.

I indledningen kan man læse, at mellem 10 og 15 % af den voksne befolkning i de nordiske lande er så dårlige læsere, at de har problemer med at fungere tilfredsstillende i hverdags- og arbejdsliv. For at komme det til livs har centret følgende anbefalinger. Alle med det for øje, at skabe lige muligheder for alle.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an imaging technique to show that the brain activation patterns in children with poor reading skills and a low IQ are similar to those in poor readers with a typical IQ. The work provides more definitive evidence about poor readers having similar kinds of difficulties regardless of their general cognitive ability.

About 5 to 10 percent of American children are diagnosed as dyslexic. Historically, the label has been assigned to kids who are bright, even verbally articulate, but who struggle with reading -- in short, whose high IQs mismatch their low reading scores. When children are not as bright, however, their reading troubles have been chalked up to their general intellectual limitations.

Henry Winkler, who played the Fonz in the classic US sitcom Happy Days, has been appointed an honorary OBE for his educational work on dyslexia in the UK. Winkler received the honour at the British embassy in Washington DC. The actor-turned-children's author, who was diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult, said he was "overwhelmed" to have his work recognised.

Ordblindhed er et alvorligt problem for mange mennesker. Desværre bliver det ikke altid opdaget i rette tid. »Traditionen i norske skoler ved mistanken om ordblindhed er 'vent og se'.

Children with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) have a higher chance of having WLD (written language disorder). Although the risk is greater for both sexes with ADHD, girls with ADHD have a higher chance of having WLD together with reading difficulties than boys with ADHD

Det skal være endnu lettere for unge med læsevanskeligheder at låne lydbøger på biblioteket. Nationalbiblioteket for mennesker med læsevanskeligheder, Nota, er i gang med at gøre det muligt at streame lydbøger direkte på mobiltelefonen

Børn, der har problemer med at læse, kan få hjælp af en lyttende hund på biblioteket i Fredericia.

Tyler K. Perrachione, Stephanie N. Del Tufo og John D. E. Gabrieli har publisert en artikkel i nyeste nummer av Science med tittelen "Human Voice Recognition Depends on Language Ability". Abstract...

There's been a fair amount of media interest in a recent study suggesting that dyslexics are worse than controls at (certain kinds of) speaker recognition.

Dyslexia is largely hereditary and linked to a number of genes, the functions of which are, however, largely unknown. This present study from Karolinska Institutet and Helsinki University now shows that one of these genes, DCDC2, is involved in regulating the signalling of cilia in brain neurons.