A friend who
has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can
read, but it takes a lot of concentration, and the letters seems to
"jump around".
Dyslexia
is characterized by difficulty with learning to read fluently and
with accurate comprehension despite normal intelligence. This
includes difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological
decoding, processing speed, orthographic coding, auditory short-term
memory, language skills/verbal comprehension, and/or rapid naming.
Developmental
reading disorder (DRD) is the most common learning disability.
Dyslexia is the most recognized of reading disorders, however not all
reading disorders are linked to dyslexia.
Some see
dyslexia as distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other
causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing,
or poor or inadequate reading instruction. There are three proposed
cognitive subtypes of dyslexia (auditory, visual and attentional),
although individual cases of dyslexia are better explained by
specific underlying neuropsychological deficits and co-occurring
learning disabilities (e.g. attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder,
math disability, etc.). Although it is considered to be a receptive
language-based learning disability in the research literature,
dyslexia also affects one's expressive language skills. Researchers
at MIT found that people with dyslexia exhibited impaired
voice-recognition abilities.
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