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Network
of Excellence
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CARiMan
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The
Internet Portal for Computer Aided Risk Management
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Responsible: NIEB
Assistants: ICS,
CSVR, Info, TUS,
TUC, AGH, MIRA, PRO, SMU,
MIS
Developmental
Dyslexia (DD) is defined as unexpected failure to learn to read. Today DD
constitutes one of the most common childhood disabilities as 3 - 15% of the
population from diverse cultures and countries have reading problems of that
type. As literacy underpins education, DD creates serious social problems. In
childhood, DD undermines process of education and results in numerous emotional,
social and school difficulties. Moreover, it prevents the recognition of
individual talents. In adults, reading disability has a pronounced impact on
employment and financial well-being. The personal and societal costs of these
reading problems are, thus, enormous.
Despite
growing number of research reports showing a wide spectrum of neurological
deficits that are found in dyslexics, these deficits remain undetected until a
child starts his/her school education and develops a spectrum of serious
dyslexic problems. Important body of knowledge and new techniques are currently
available that would help to select pre-school children who are at-risk of
reading failure. The proposed JPA focuses on identifying and integrating modern
computer-aided techniques that would enable the recognition of risk factors for
dyslexia. Early intervention in children at risk for reading problems might
reduce the number of those who need extensive, long lasting and cost consuming
training and remediation in later ages.
We propose a
multi-modal collaborative approach – one that involves neuroscientists and
high specialist in advanced technologies working together to elaborate new
techniques targeted at early recognition of dyslexia. Combining methodological
innovations with advanced knowledge on brain function constitutes a new strategy
to meet the challenge of cooping with dyslexia.