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In 1964, the Associated for Children with Learning Disabilities (now known as Learning Disability Association of America) was formed. [2] In 1968, Makita suggested that dyslexia was mostly absent among Japanese children. [15] A 2005 study shows that Makita's claim of rarity of incidence of reading disabilities in Japan to be incorrect. [16]
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Dyslexia is believed to be caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Some cases run in families. Dyslexia that develops due to a traumatic brain injury, stroke, or dementia is sometimes called "acquired dyslexia" or alexia. The underlying mechanisms of dyslexia result from differences within the brain's language processing ...
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Without a biological explanation for dyslexia, this heritability went unexplained. Not only must the heritability be explained, but also the environmental factors that protected at-risk children from developing dyslexia. Research began to focus on potential biological causes and to center the study of dyslexia in a developmental framework.
Henry Winkler opens about dyslexia diagnosis at 31, growing up with dyslexia, and the advice he gives all kids including Kelly Clarkson's daughter. Henry Winkler on growing up dyslexic in the ...
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Other books by Levinson include Phobia Free (1986), Total Concentration (1990), Turning Around — The Upside Down Kids (1992), A Scientific Watergate — Dyslexia (1994), and the lead chapter in The All in One Guide to ADD and Hyperactivity (2001). [23] Levinson is also the author of the Psychology Today blog Freud's Missing Links. [24]