Current Advances in Developmental Dyslexia
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurolinguistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2026 | Viewed by 4
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Interests: visual guidance of movement; magnocellular timing systems; cerebellum; visual dyslexia; blue or yellow filters; omega 3s
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Dear Colleagues,
The concept of developmental dyslexia has become rather controversial in recent years, as its definition has lost clarity. The importance of training children in phonics has perhaps been overemphasized, and the crucial role of the visual processes that precede children’s ability to gain phonological awareness seems to have been been forgotten. There is little doubt today that learning to recognize and sequence letters visually long precedes children’s ability to grasp phonics. This fact was discovered nearly 50 years ago, and subsequent advances in neuroimaging, neuropsychology and molecular genetics have provided solid neuroscientific evidence for its truth.
In this Special Issue we hope to present an overview of these recent advances in a way which will contribute to greater understanding of how children develop the neural pathways to learn to read. In doing so, we hope to help teachers improve their ability to teach them, and demonstrate that neurodiversity is not as damaging or threatening as some argue, because the gene variants that underlie it would not be so common if they did not confer some benefits to humanity.
Therefore, we seek contributions to this issue, whether fresh research, new ruminations on remaining controversies or frank disagreements. Importantly for the progression of neuroscience, opinions regarding the way forward differ, and so we are happy to include the views of people who believe that the current enthusiasm for the concept of neurodiversity is thoroughly mistaken and should be treated with scepticism.
Prof. Dr. John F. Stein
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- developmental dyslexia
- neuroimaging
- neuropsychology
- molecular genetics
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