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A common reading disorder goes undiagnosed until it becomes problematic, according to the results of a five-year study published online in the journal Brain Connectivity.

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The term dyslexia refers to persons for whom reading is simply beyond their reach. This article investigates the top three possible causes of dyslexia: genetic influences, cognitive deficits, and brain differences.

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We investigate dyslexia symptoms, early warning signs of dyslexia, and risk factors for dyslexia.

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Surface dyslexia is a subtype of dyslexia that refers to children who struggle with reading because they can’t recognize words by sight. Learn how to help your child.

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Ten children who overcame dyslexia and how their parents helped them do it.

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Visual dyslexia, also called surface dyslexia, dyseidetic dyslexia or orthographic dyslexia, is a subtype of dyslexia that refers to children who struggle with reading because they have problems remembering and discriminating visual gestalts.

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Directional confusion is a common symptom of dyslexia, and may take a number of forms, from being uncertain of which is left and right to being unable to read a map accurately. Directional confusion affects other concepts such as up and down, top and bottom, compass directions...

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Rote, the outcome of repetition, means to do something routinely or in a fixed way, to respond automatically by memory alone, without thought. Repetition thus leads to fast, effortless, autonomous, and automatic processing.

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About dyslexia theories: the phonological deficit theory, magnocellular theory, rapid naming deficit, double deficit hypothesis, and the multiple deficit model that considers all the aspects that may contribute to dyslexia.

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Most problems can be solved once we know what causes that particular problem. For example, a disease such as scurvy claimed the lives of thousands of seamen during long sea voyages. However, the disease was cured fairly quickly once the cause was discovered: a vitamin C deficiency. A viable point of departure would therefore be to ask the question, what causes dyslexia?

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Reading difficulties related to visual-processing weaknesses have been called dyseidetic dyslexia, visual dyslexia, orthographic dyslexia or surface dyslexia. The primary deficit of dyseidetic dyslexia is the inability to revisualize the gestalt of the word.

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This article discusses ten types of learning disabilities and how to help: dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, language processing disorder, visual processing disorder, auditory processing disorder, ADHD, autism, and nonverbal learning disability.

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