Prediction and Intervention in Developmental Dyslexia

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH · Aug 13, 2014

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria for all groups:
• • Healthy, native (CH-) German speaking subjects, with an estimated non-verbal intelligence quotient (IQ) \>=80, without neurological and/or psychiatric disorder (except for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, specific learning disorders, developmental language impairments)
• * Additional criteria for subgroups:
• * Recruitment of preschoolers (aged 5.5-7.5 years):
• • Healthy children with increased risk for developmental dyslexia in their second year at kindergarten
• * Recruitment of children in first grade (aged 6.5-8.5years):
• • Children showing impairments in learning to read (first/second grade).
• * Adults (aged 20-40 years):
• • Healthy, normal reading
• Exclusion Criteria for all groups:
• • MRI contraindications
• • No history of premature delivery and/or maternal reports of severe prenatal, perinatal or postnatal complications.