New Dyslexia Theory Blames ‘Noise’
The dyslexic brain struggles to read because even small distractions can throw it off, according to a new model of dyslexia emerging from a group of recent studies.The studies contradict an influential, 30-year-old theory that blamed dyslexia on a neural deficit in processing the fast sounds of language.Instead, the studies suggest that children with dyslexia have bad filters for irrelevant data.
