Reply to Skottun and Skoyles: Statistical and practical significance of extra-wide letter spacing for dyslexic children

Marco Zorzi, Chiara Barbiero, Andrea Facoetti, Johannes C. Ziegler

Type: Article

Publication Date: 2012-09-07

Citations: 0

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213265109

Abstract

In their letter, Skottun and Skoyles (1) question our conclusion (2) that extra-wide letter spacing is more beneficial to dyslexic children than to normally developing children. Here, we show the pitfalls of their reasoning.

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