New Dyslexia Theory Blames ‘Noise’

December 26, 2006

The dyslexic brain struggles to read because even small distractions can throw it off, according to a new model of dyslexia emerging from a group of recent studies.The studies contradict an influential, 30-year-old theory that blamed dyslexia on a neural deficit in processing the fast sounds of language.Instead, the studies suggest that children with dyslexia have bad filters for irrelevant data.

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