Dyslexia.
    
Date Submitted: 07/22/2004 22:55:10
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 3 pages (906 words)
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 3 pages (906 words)
Dyslexia:  A condition some people are born with, which is primarily
 characterized by difficulty with language.
 Dyslexia is one of several distinct learning disabilities.  It is a specific
 language-based disorder of constitutional origin characterized by difficulties in
 single word decoding, usually reflecting insufficient phonological processing
 abilities.  These difficulties in single word decoding are often unexpected in
 relation to age and other cognitive and academic abilities; they are not the result
 of generalized developmental disability or 
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Experts diagnose dyslexia only when reliable evidence shows that a child's
 reading difficulties do not seem correctable through intensive, appropriate
 instruction.  A child may not respond well in group instructional settings and may
 fall behind classmates in both reading acquisition and phonological processing skills.
 But these deficits alone would not warrant a diagnosis of dyslexia.  Such a diagnosis
 is appropriate only if the deficits remain after the child receives intensive tutorial
 instruction to correct them.
 
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