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participants were born in Italy and used Italian as their first oral language
and their reading difficulties were not caused by a lack of education. Furthermore,
the participants do not suffer from other neurological or psychopathological
problems. According to the DSM-IV recommendations [ref. American Psychiatric
Association, 2000], we exclude from our sample children with DD in comorbidity
with attention deficit or hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). None of the
participants belonged to families with socio-cultural disadvantage.<br></div>