Frank Ramus, a cognitive scientist at the cole Normale Suprieure, in France, who was not involved in the study, called it the most conclusive study of dyslexia's causes in the last five years ...

Box 1: Research designs that can disentangle cause from effect in dyslexia The reduction in reading experience that is inherent in being dyslexic can itself cause differences in sensory processing ...

Before discussing the causes of dyslexia, it’s important to note what doesn’t cause it. Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects a person’s ability to read. But it has nothing to do ...

The exact cause of dyslexia is not clear, although the condition is generally thought to run in families. To this end, dyslexia appears to be an inherited condition, and children with a family ...

Professor Julia Carroll and Dr Penelope Hannant reflect on the recent documentary from Jamie Oliver and propose some ways to ...

Scientists have revealed the key causes of dyslexia — and how it may shrink parts of the brain. The learning difficulty, which causes sufferers to frequently spell and read words wrong ...

but anyone with dyslexia can experience some or all of these: The exact cause of dyslexia isn’t known. But it has been linked to changes in genes that affect development of the parts of the ...

The causes of dyslexia are not yet fully understood. However, researchers based in Dresden, Germany, say they have been able ...

Researchers at Cardiff University have discovered a gene which they believe is likely to be one of the causes of dyslexia in children. It is hoped the discovery will lead to better understand of the ...

In some cases, diagnosis may not happen until later in life. Dyslexia is a learning disorder that can cause many difficulties, including problems with reading and writing. People with dyslexia ...