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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain$
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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain

Roderick Nicolson and Angela Fawcett

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780262140997

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262140997.001.0001

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Dyslexia and Automaticity

Dyslexia and Automaticity

Chapter:
(p.67) 4 Dyslexia and Automaticity
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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain
Author(s):

Roderick I. Nicolson

Angela J. Fawcett

Publisher:
The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262140997.003.0004

This chapter presents results of cognitive investigations of dyslexia as a learning difficulty. It discusses the concept of automaticity to explain the underlying problems of dyslexia. The chapter proposes the dyslexic automatization deficit (DAD) hypothesis, which suggests that dyslexic children have abnormal difficulties in making skills automatic despite extensive practice.

Keywords:   cognitive investigations, dyslexia, learning, automaticity, dyslexic automatization deficit hypothesis

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