Do faulty eye movements cause dyslexia?
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Developmental Neuropsychology
- Vol. 1 (1) , 3-15
- https://doi.org/10.1080/87565648509540294
Abstract
Research concerning eye‐movement patterns of dyslexic and normal readers is reviewed. Some dyslexic readers (visual‐spatial dyslexics) have a tendency to make erratic eye movements during reading and nonreading tasks, but the eye movements per se reflect underlying problems and are not the cause of developmental dyslexia. For dyslexic readers with a language deficit, the eye‐movement pattern reflects difficulties in understanding language. It is concluded that, independently of any subtype categorization of dyslexic readers, eye movements are a peripheral component of the reading process and not a cause of dyslexia.Keywords
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