Dyslexia

Professional Dyslexia About Dyslexia

Dyslexia: Organic Versus Emotional Reactions The neurologist has a set of descriptive terms he applies to varying degrees of sensory and motor malfunctions such as acalculia, dyscalculia, agnosia, dysnosia, agraphia, dysgraphia, alexia, aphasia, and so forth. The educator sees some 15 percent of his pupils as having learning problems resulting from partial central nervous system dysfunction and...

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In the absence of a full understanding of the nature of dyslexia, the researchers’ approach was to identify some of the most commonly noted problems which dyslexics encounter when reading and producing text. On the basis of these common difficulties, they identified ways in which each individual might be able to minimise the consequences of their own particular problems by manipulating the appe...

Developmental Dyslexia

The possible causes and correlates of such difficulty have been the focus of a great deal of theorizing since before the turn of the twentieth century, when W. Pringle Morgan (1896) described a 14-year-old boy named Percy who suffered from pronounced difficulty learning to read and spell, despite normal achievement in other academic areas. Because he could find no evidence of definitive brain i...

Developmental Dyslexia