I have a question for SD: are you equally dyslexic in Arabic and English?
The reason that I'm asking is that I heard a report on BBC news (steam radio) claiming that Chinese children who are dyslexic use different parts of the brain while having reading problems from their English counterparts. This inspired researchers in Japan to study the problem with Japanese children and they found that a few Japanese/English bilingual children were dyslexic in only one language. However, the number of candidates was too small for a statistical analysis. French/English bilingual dyslexic children are so in both languages. The theory is that the different character forms between alphabetic and ideographic languages have different recognition areas in the brain, but I was idly wondering whether it's the same between right-to-left and left-to-right languages.
The reason that I'm asking is that I heard a report on BBC news (steam radio) claiming that Chinese children who are dyslexic use different parts of the brain while having reading problems from their English counterparts. This inspired researchers in Japan to study the problem with Japanese children and they found that a few Japanese/English bilingual children were dyslexic in only one language. However, the number of candidates was too small for a statistical analysis. French/English bilingual dyslexic children are so in both languages. The theory is that the different character forms between alphabetic and ideographic languages have different recognition areas in the brain, but I was idly wondering whether it's the same between right-to-left and left-to-right languages.
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