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Friedmann et al. (2010).Is the visual analyzer orthographic-specific? Reading words and numbers in letter position dyslexia Cortex. 2010 Sep;46(8):982-1004. Letter position dyslexia is a deficit in the encoding of letter position within words. It is characterized by errors of letter migration within words, such as reading trail as trial and form as from. In order to [...]

Reinhart et al. (2013). The frequency and significance of the word length effect in neglect dyslexia. Neuropsychologia. Neglect patients often omit or misread initial letters of single words, a phenomenon termed neglect dyslexia. Omissions of whole words on the contralesional side of the page during paragraph reading are generally considered as egocentric or space-based errors, [...]

Naama Friedmann and Manar Haddad-Hanna (2012). Letter position dyslexia in Arabic: From form to position. Behavioural Neurology, 25, 93-103.   This study reports the reading of 4 Arabic-speaking individuals with letter position dyslexia (LPD), and the effect of letter form on their reading errors. LPD is a peripheral dyslexia caused by a selective deficit to letter [...]

Dyslexia is a problem with the word-reading networks in the brain. Dyslexia literally means poor (dys) with words (lexia). The individual with dyslexia has difficulty reading the words on the page; it is not a problem with comprehension. The weakness in word-reading is most notable when reading words in isolation. People with dyslexia often read [...]

O’Brien et al. (2012). A Taxometric Investigation of Developmental Dyslexia Subtypes. Dyslexia, 18, 16-39. Keywords: developmental dyslexia; subtypes; double deficit hypothesis; taxometric analysis Long-standing issues with the conceptualization, identification and subtyping of developmental dyslexia persist. This study takes an alternative approach to examine the heterogeneity of developmental dyslexia using taxometric classification techniques. These methods were used with [...]