Beyond Boundaries: Current Advances in Developmental Learning Disorders
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neuropsychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 84
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Interests: dyslexia; cognitive assessment; word morphology
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Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, a wide debate has been raised within scientific and clinical communities about the opportunity to go beyond the discrete categories described in international diagnostic systems by assuming a dimensional approach to the study of neurodevelopmental disorders (Astle et al., 2022). In fact, although most research works in this field assume that the diagnostic criteria reflect an underlying reality, growing evidence suggests that this is not the case. Alternatively, a transdiagnostic approach has been proposed. According to this view, priority should be given to characteristics and mechanisms that can offer useful clues to describe behavioural deficits in detail and to find customized treatments, even when symptoms are not fully consistent with any conventional diagnostic category.
In this Special Issue, research works and systematic reviews on learning disorders, realized and discussed considering the transdiagnostic perspective, are welcomed. In particular, the description of domain-general components underlying different behaviours and the comparison between different types of deficits within the same symptom (dyslexia, poor reading comprehension, dysgraphia, poor text production, low numeracy, poor calculation skills) are expected, as they can provide useful support to the clinical and research work on developmental learning disorders.
Dr. Daniela Traficante
Dr. Luisa Girelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- developmental learning disorders
- transdiagnostic approach
- comorbidity
- domain-general components
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