Evidence That Dyslexia May Represent the Lower Tail of a Normal Distribution of Reading Ability
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- 16 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 326 (3) , 145-150
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199201163260301
Abstract
Dyslexia is now widely believed to be a biologically based disorder that is distinct from other, less specific reading problems. According to this view, reading ability is considered to follow a bimodal distribution, with dyslexia as the lower mode. We hypothesized that, instead, reading ability follows a normal distribution, with dyslexia at the lower end of the continuum.Keywords
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