The implausibility of low-level visual deficits as a cause of children's reading difficulties

Abstract Lovegrove, Martin, and Slaghuis (1986) have argued that low-level visual deficits may commonly be a cause of reading retardation in children. It is argued here that these deficits do not provide a plausible explanation for the sorts of reading problems seen in children retarded in reading. In the minority of cases of reading retardation that do seem to reflect an underlying visual deficit, the problem would appear to depend upon higher-level visual processes.

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