Myth #20 for #DyslexiaAwarenessMonth:" #A lot more boys than girls develop #Dyslexia or a #reading impairments!" NOT TRUE (but tricky)! The research is somewhat inconclusive and a wide range of sex differences (including none) has been reported. What we know is that 1/3
...most research suggests that #dyslexia is slightly (but not a lot) more frequent in boys than girls, with ratio of approx. 1.5-2.1:1, which cannot be entirely attributed to ascertainment bias & may be due to greater variance in #reading performance for boys than girls or ...2/3
..the reported sex difference may be due to a lower threshold for maladaptive outcomes in the presence of early risk factors. We need more research on this but pl take a look at Badian et al., 1999; Moll et al., 2014; Rutter et al., 2004; Liederman et al., 2005; Quinn, 2015
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