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Dyslexia Theories and Models

About dyslexia theories: the phonological deficit theory, magnocellular theory, rapid naming deficit, double deficit hypothesis, and the multiple deficit model that considers all the aspects that may contribute to dyslexia.

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Dyslexia: More than a Phonological Deficit

Most problems can be solved once we know what causes that particular problem. For example, a disease such as scurvy claimed the lives of thousands of seamen during long sea voyages. However, the disease was cured fairly quickly once the cause was discovered: a vitamin C deficiency. A viable point of departure would therefore be to ask the question, what causes dyslexia?

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Phonemic Awareness Training: A Cart-Before-the-Horse Approach?

In the last 25 years, volumes have been written about the correlation between phonological processing deficits (and especially a phonemic awareness deficit) and reading difficulties like dyslexia. In the scientific community, many has reached consensus that most reading and spelling disabilities originate with a specific impairment of language processing...

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