Bilinguals use inter-language transfer to deal with dyslexia

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) Dyslexic children learning both a language that is pronounced as written --like Spanish -- and a second language in which the same letter can have several sounds -- such as English -- are less affected by this alteration when reading or writing in the latter language. The authors of the Basque research centre BCBL warn that this is less a cure than a reduction of some of the symptoms.