The phonological and visual basis of developmental dyslexia in Brazilian Portuguese reading children.

Evidence from opaque languages suggests that visual attention processing abilities in addition to phonological skills may act as cognitive underpinnings of developmental dyslexia. We explored the role of these two cognitive abilities on reading fluency in Brazilian Portuguese, a more transparent ort...

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Main Authors: Giseli Donadon Germano, Caroline eReilhac, Simone Aparecida Capellini, Sylviane eValdois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01169/full