Ocular and General Proprioception in Dyslexic Children: A Review of Their Diurnal and Nocturnal Dysfunctions and Their Repercussions

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The ms is very interesting, it sommarizes several studies made by this group since 20 years; in general it is well written, I have few comments to improve th ms before its publication.

• The affiliation of the first and third author semmes to be the same, so why they wrote two different numbers (1 and 3)?
• Page 3, line 116: add point at the end of the sentence.
• Page 7 lines 258-262: remove this sentence; you can add this at the end of the description of your studies given that all studies you presented here has been approved by the Human Experimentation Committee.
• Table 1 and 2: in legend add  what mean the p values in red and green (its clear for me but you need to specify that for the reeader).
• Page 10, line 341: add point at the end of the sentence.
• Table 3, lability index is quite difficult to understand; could you try a solution to better explain this table ?
• Discussion: you could expand your disucssion section; for instance you could add recent papers (see here my suggestion)

McPhillips M, McNally H, Taylor B, Doumas M. Pervasive Motor and Balance Difficulties in University Students With Dyslexia. Dyslexia. 2025 May;31(2):e70006. doi: 10.1002/dys.70006.

Bucci, M. P., Moscoso, A., Acquaviva, E., Humeau, E., & Delorme, R. (2024). Eye movements and postural control in children; biomarkers of neurodevelopmental disorders: Evidences toward new forms of therapeutic intervention? Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology, 10(3), 231–242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40817-024-00172-w

 

Scheveig F, Bucci MP. Postural and Proprioceptive Deficits Clinically Assessed in Children with Reading Disabilities: A Case-Control Study. Vision (Basel). 2023 Apr 27;7(2):37. doi: 10.3390/vision7020037.

 

8) I agree with you that phonologic disorders are not the ONLY disorders observed in dysleixa population. After more that 20 years of studing dyslexia, could you advance or confirm some other hypothesis for explaing such disoerder? Where alterations in sensorimotor control come ?

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The aim of this review study is to provide a summary of the extensive work conducted by a group of researchers on the relationship between ocular proprioception, general proprioception, sensory integration in children with dyslexia. Also, several issues related to therapeutic perspectives and procedures were presented and discussed.

 

In general, the content of this study is interesting, innovative considering the extend of all the issues structured and organized together depicting a much broader view of several issues, dysfunctions and therapeutic procedures, related to dyslexia and that the readers of Vision could demonstrate some interest. Moreover, the manuscript is organized, structured and developed in such a way certainly improve our actual knowledge regarding several issues related to dyslexia.

 

Despite having said that, there are a few small issues that need to be clarified or further organized in order to facilitate the readers’ understanding. First, starting in line 248, an exploratory study was described. The description at the beginning followed the pattern used throughout the manuscript, but shortly, such organization was changed:

• Lines 258-262: why show here the ethical information? This is awkward because in the other several works described, not such information was provided.
• Lines 263-277: description of the procedures and variables is also awkward, based upon the pattern used in other occasions throughout the manuscript.

 

Second, although much was used to describe procedures, little and confusion information was made available for Table 1. What do those numbers in Table 1 mean?

• Line 282: It is mentioned “Scores of the Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children … “, but when this scores were obtained?
• Lines 283-286: yes these are the scores, but how are they related to any value in the Table 1?
• Lines 287-291: what is this information and how it is related to Table 1, again?

 

Please, reorganize the presentation of all information for this study/part of the manuscript.

 

Lines 355-356: please clarify how “latency” was obtained in this study and how imaginary “latency” was obtained.

 

Figure 4, lines 425-426: it would be recommended that some image effect would be issued, blocking at least part of the face of the girl.

Author Response

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