This review presents a summary of the research on advancing dyslexia knowledge among school professionals. It contributes to literature with proposed solution for professional development and teacher training through field developmental psychology. The article outlines what has been done address science-education gap owing misunderstandings about dyslexia, proposing advance professionals’ psych...

BACKGROUND familial dyslexia. AIM to characterize and compare the phonological awareness, working memory, reading and writing abilities of individuals whose family members are also affected. METHOD in this study 10 familial nuclei of natural family relationship of individuals with dyslexia were analyzed. Families of natural individuals living in the west region of the state of São Paulo wer...

Dyslexia is a reading disability that can, in some cases, be cured. The most frequent treatment for dyslexia consists on repeatedly performing certain word exercises. Because most dyslexic patients are young children, most applications for word training are games. The development of such games is costly and it involves different parts (developers, psychologists, etc.). In this paper, we analyze...

Dyslexia is the most common and carefully studied of the learning disabilities in school-age children. It is characterized by a marked impairment in the development of reading skills, and affects a large number of people. The prevalence of dyslexia shows considerable cross-national variation. Additionally, a plethora of research studies have indicated that there are more boys than girls with re...

Dyslexia is defined as a specific reading disorder despite normal intelligence and conventional teaching. One of the most influential theories attempting to explain problems suffered by dyslexics assumes that dyslexia is caused by deficits of the magnocellular system. This system, generally responsible for processing fast sensory information, projects mostly to the parietal cortex. Consistent w...