title: Dyslexia - Talk of two theories creator: Ramus, Franck subject: Cognitive Psychology subject: Developmental Psychology subject: Neurolinguistics description: Regardless of how intelligent they are, people with developmental dyslexia have difficulties in learning to read, a characteristic first described over a century ago. Dyslexia is now known to be a hereditary neurological disorder that affects a huge number of people — about 5% of the global population — but its underlying basis is still hotly debated. At two recent meetings, however, the reasons for the disagreement became clearer. publisher: MacMillan date: 2001-07 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/1764/1/nature01.html identifier: Ramus, Franck (2001) Dyslexia - Talk of two theories. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/1764/