Dyslexia Found To Transcend Language
English is tricky. Words with the same letter combinations can have entirely different pronunciations: mint and pint, for instance, or love and clove.
But even though English-speakers have higher rates of dyslexia than those who speak Italian, a new research study shows that the learning disability is rooted in the same processing problem in the brain regardless of people's native language.
By studying dyslexics with three different native languages, the researchers from England, France, and Italy—led by Dr. Eraldo Paulesu of the University of Milan-Bicocca in Milan, Italy—believe they have discovered why rates of dyslexia vary so much from country to country: Languages that have more complicated writing systems make the...
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