Dyslexia in Different Languages
Is dyslexia the same in different countries and cultures? Would a child with dyslexia struggle with Chinese the same way she might with English or Spanish? Hear from Fumiko Hoeft, M.D., Ph.D.,...
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The only thing that is very concrete is that very little is known in terms of research. But that said, people have looked at by dyslexia multiple languages, or different languages. So for example, we looked at children from China with dyslexia, and compared that from children, looked at that, and there's a number of researchers who looked at it in multiple different languages. But I think the general latest science, the answer is that the neurobiological underpinning, the neuroscience behind it is fundamentally the same. If some years ago some people said that there's very different genes for dyslexia, if you go to different written languages it looks very different, and there were some findings that went out in the literature on this, but I think...
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The only thing that is very concrete is that very little is known in terms of research. But that said, people have looked at by dyslexia multiple languages, or different languages. So for example, we looked at children from China with dyslexia, and compared that from children, looked at that, and there's a number of researchers who looked at it in multiple different languages. But I think the general latest science, the answer is that the neurobiological underpinning, the neuroscience behind it is fundamentally the same. If some years ago some people said that there's very different genes for dyslexia, if you go to different written languages it looks very different, and there were some findings that went out in the literature on this, but I think...
