2008-09-08
What is dyslexia? Developmental dyslexia is an unexpected difficulty in reading. Unexpected refers to children and adults who appear to have all the factors necessary to become good readers: intelligence, motivation, and exposure to reasonable reading instruction - and yet struggle to read. Here, for ease of communication. We will refer to “developmental dyslexia” as simply “dyslexia”; it is also referred to as specific reading disability.
Dyslexia, first described over a century ago by a British physician, is the most common and most carefully studied of the learning disabilities, affecting 80% of all individuals identified as learning disabled.