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Language-based screeners may miss kids who struggle to read due to visual-processing issues

  • June 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Language-based screeners may miss kids who struggle to read due to visual-processing issues
Reading difficulties, like dyslexia, are common and often affect achievement and outcomes during school and later in life. A new study, published in Current Biology, reports that current methods used to test for reading disabilities in young children may be missing a certain subgroup of children whose reading issues stem from visual-processing difficulties.

Originally published at Phys.org

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