Article 22th (The Psychophysiology of Reading)

Developmental dyslexia is a neuropsychological disorder that affects reading and writing skills: Subjects who are affected generally have intelligence within normal limits, normal hearing and visual acuity and have received adequate education. At the social, psychological and occupational level, dyslexia has a significant impact. The efficacy of a therapy is greater the earlier it is done. For this reason it is important to identify the presence of disorders of reading beginning with the first grade of primary school; moreover it is important to design rehabilitation treatments based on a precise knowledge of the clinical manifestations of dyslexia. The most obvious symptoms of the presence of dyslexia are lack of reading fluency and reading/writing errors.

Thus, dyslexia can be defined froma psychophysiological point of view, as a disorder of programming and integrating ideokinetic elements, associated with a deficiency in the fast processing and integration of sensory information, with a reduced efficiency of error systems analysis. All these phenomena occur at different levels of the central nervous system and at different times during reading. The combination of these disorders leads individuals with dyslexia to read more slowly than healthy subjects, and to commit more errors.

Annisa Masnasuri Kesai

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