{"id":1912,"date":"2017-04-19T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2017-12-28T00:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T00:56:30","slug":"gender-differences-in-dyslexia-diagnoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/gender-differences-in-dyslexia-diagnoses\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Differences in Dyslexia Diagnoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_107231938_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1914 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_107231938_Credit-747x1024.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_107231938_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_107231938_Credit-747x1024.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_107231938_Credit-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has long been true that men are diagnosed with dyslexia more often than women. This <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jcpp.12691\/full\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> (rather technical, by the way) offers one potential explanation: <em>processing speed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What is processing speed? It&#8217;s an unusually straightforward concept in psychology.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that I show you a piece of paper with several rows of different shapes. There might be a square, and then a star, and then a rectangle, and then a circle. And so forth.<\/p>\n<p>To test your processing speed, I simply ask you to name all those shapes as quickly and accurately as you can. Or, I might ask you to say the <em>colors<\/em> of the shapes: the first one is green, the second is purple, and the third orange.<\/p>\n<p>If you accomplish these tasks relatively quickly, you have a high processing speed.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, women have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1041608010001639\" target=\"_blank\">slightly higher processing speed<\/a> than men&#8211;especially in verbal tasks. The authors of this new study find that this difference in processing speed gives women an edge in reading fluency&#8211;and reduces the likelihood that they will be diagnosed with dyslexia.<\/p>\n<p>There are no immediate teaching implications of this finding; however, anything that helps us understand how learning differences <em>come to be<\/em>&#8230;and, come to be <em>diagnosed<\/em>&#8230;might help us improve reading and learning in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been true that men are diagnosed with dyslexia more often than women. This article (rather technical, by the way) offers one potential explanation: processing speed. What is processing speed? It&#8217;s an unusually straightforward concept in psychology. Imagine that I show you a piece of paper with several rows of different shapes. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,47],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-gender","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}