DYSLEXIA

What is Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a Specific Learning Difficulty with a neurological basis. It is characterized by difficulties in accuracy and/or fluency in word recognition and by a lack of ability to learn to write and decode.

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This lack of skill is the result of a deficit in the phonological component of language, and is unexpected in relation to other cognitive skills and effective classroom instructions.

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Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and a reduction in reading which prevents vocabulary growth.

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(Source: International Dyslexia Association)

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Dyslexia is the most common of the Specific Learning Difficulties (SLD).

It is a language difficulty that affects the learning of the reading-writing code at an early age. It implies a disorder at the phonological level of the language (for example Spanish).

It mainly affects the process of acquiring reading and writing as effective instruments of communication.

This specific difficulty can affect other areas such as auditory-verbal working memory, attention, visual-manual coordination, perception, and spatio-temporal orientation.

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