Children with dyslexia seem to find it more difficult to judge the direction of moving dots - this could explain why reading is also more challenging.
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By the age of five, most children can name at least ten letters. In our study, 58.6% of children living with disadvantage could not name the expected number of alphabet letters.
Reading capability is vital for young people to be able to access and engage with the curriculum by the end of primary school and even more so at secondary school. But the data we have indicates that a…
When we want what we write to be clearly communicated to a reader, we generally try to use a typeface that is clear to read. But few people realise how quickly your choice of typeface affects that process…
In their recently published book, The Dyslexia Debate, Joe Elliott and Elena Grigorenko controversially call for the term “dyslexia” to be abandoned. They argue it is an imprecise label that does nothing…
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Associate Professor, Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
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Executive Officer / Educational and Developmental Psychologist; Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professor of Education, Durham University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Birmingham
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford
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Director, Center for Community Child Health Royal Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Theme Director Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute