Dyslexia Animations – Learning Disorder Animations

Emory Study Shows Babies Grasp Number, Space And Time Concepts
Even before they learn to speak, babies are organizing information about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously realized, a study led by Emory University psychologist Stella Lourenco finds. "We've shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to 'more than' or 'less than' relations across the number, size and duration of objects...

Babies Born At 37 To 39 Weeks Have Higher Risk Of Autism And Special Educational Needs
After analyzing the birth history of over 400,000 schoolchildren, Scottish researchers found that the risk of autism and/or special educational needs (SEN) were 1.16 times greater for babies born at 37 to 39 weeks of gestation, compared to those born at the full 40 weeks. This finding has important implications for the timing of elective Cesarean deliveries...

Newborn Infants Learn While Asleep; Study May Lead To Later Disability Tests
Sleeping newborns are better learners than thought, says a University of Florida researcher about a study that is the first of its type. The study could lead to identifying those at risk for developmental disorders such as autism and dyslexia...

Differences In Language Circuits In The Brain Linked To Dyslexia
Children with dyslexia often struggle with reading, writing, and spelling, despite getting an appropriate education and demonstrating intellectual ability in other areas. New neurological research has found that these children's difficulties with written language may be linked to structural differences within an important information highway in the brain known to play a role in oral language...

Research Confirms That Motor And Cognitive Skills Are Improved By Hand-Clapping Songs
A researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) conducted the first study of hand-clapping songs, revealing a direct link between those activities and the development of important skills in children and young adults, including university students...

5 Quick Tips For Parents Of Overweight Kids
More than 25 million American children are obese or at risk for becoming obese. If you're the parent of an overweight kid, you're probably wondering what you can do to help your child. BeSmartBeWell.com interviewed leading childhood obesity experts, as well as parents and kids, to come up with some practical advice for dealing with the problem. Here are just a few of their habits to have...

Music Therapy Fails Dyslexic Readers
There is no link between a lack of musical ability and dyslexia. Moreover, attempts to treat dyslexia with music therapy are unwarranted, according to scientists in Belgium writing in the current issue of the International of Journal of Arts and Technology...

Music Training Enhances Brainstem Sensitivity To Speech Sounds
At a press briefing, Saturday, Feb. 20, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, a Northwestern University neuroscientist argued that music training has profound effects that shape the sensory system and should be a mainstay of K-12 education...

Universal Eye Problem Leads To Better Vision
'Crowding', the phenomenon when people are less able to differentiate letters if they are surrounded by other letters, actually leads to better vision. This is the conclusion of Dr Frans Cornelissen, who together with Dr Ronald van den Berg and Prof. Jos Roerdink is the first to succeed in explaining crowding with a mathematical model...

UC Innovation Promises New Hope For Children With Dyslexia
Reading and retaining information. That's the challenge faced by the one in five children who have some form of dyslexia. Overcoming that challenge could soon become easier for educators and children thanks to pioneering design research from the University of Cincinnati's internationally ranked College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)...

Dyslexia Defined: New Yale Study 'Uncouples' Reading And IQ Over Time
Contrary to popular belief, some very smart, accomplished people cannot read well. This unexpected difficulty in reading in relation to intelligence, education and professional status is called dyslexia, and researchers at Yale School of Medicine and University of California Davis, have presented new data that explain how otherwise bright and intelligent people struggle to read...

Optometric Vision Therapy Helps Children With Math Problems
"The incidence of individuals with a mathematics learning disability is between 6 - 7% of the population." Since there are more than 300 million individuals in the United States, up to 21 million men, women, and children may be affected by this disorder...

New Brain Findings On Dyslexic Children
The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, according to new research from Northwestern University...

Neural Mechanism Reveals Why Dyslexic Brain Has Trouble Distinguishing Speech From Noise
New research reveals that children with developmental dyslexia have a deficit in a brain mechanism involved in the perception of speech in a noisy environment...

Highlights From The 158th Acoustical Society Of America Meeting In San Antonio
Everyone listens to music at least now and then. For many of us, music is a casual experience, a moment's entertainment. But for those who practiced in a school orchestra or who play a musical instrument professionally, the musical experience can be something more...