Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a specific and persistent disability affecting the acquisition of written language. Prevalence is estimated to be between 5% and 17% of school-aged children; it therefore represents a major public health issue. Neurological in origin, its causes are unknown, although there is a clear genetic component. Diagnosis rests upon the use of standardized tests and tools to assess reading and spelling, as well as phonological skills. The importance of early diagnosis cannot be overemphasized and much current research is focusing on screening and prediction, particularly through use of objective imaging techniques (e.g., EEG/MEG), which have implicated cortical abnormalities in central auditory processing (). Remediation should be intensive, begin as early as possible, and be tailored to the individual. Phonics based treatments are most effective and several variants, incorporating temporal auditory, articulatory, or multisensory training exercises, have been developed or proposed. Clinical improvements in phonological skills and reading with such treatments have been shown to correlate with changes in the brains of dyslexic children in several functional imaging studies.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 2004, held in Montpellier, France, in March 2004. The 54 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on structural complexity, graph algorithms, quantum computing, satisfiability - constraint satisfaction problems, scheduling, algorithms, networks, automata theory and words, path algorithms, cryptography, logic and formal languages, game theory and complexity, and algorithmic information.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 2003, held in Berlin, Germany in February/March 2003. The 58 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 253 submissions. The papers address the whole range of theoretical computer science including algorithms and data structures, automata and formal languages, complexity theory, semantics, logic in computer science, as well as current challenges like biological computing, quantum computing, and mobile and net computing.
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