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What is dyslexia? Dyslexia, in the most basic terms, is a difficulty with words. Like all words that start with dys it refers to a problem, deficiency or lack. Lexia has to do with words and language.

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Advances in dyslexia testing have enabled clinicians to link certain traits, behaviors and deficits to the presence of dyslexia.

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It is possible to assess a child in order to determine whether he or she is dyslexic. This is crucial, because a diagnosis is the basis of any plan of treatment.

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An assessment does not measure one skill in isolation. Because of the nature of a specific learning disability, many different skills can be relevant to a diagnosis. Which skills are measured in a dyslexia test?

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If your child has gone through a screening and there are signs of a learning difficulty, the next step is usually a full educational assessment. Before you book one, it’s important to know what is likely to happen before, during and after the assessment.

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There is no single diagnostic dyslexia test. In order to obtain a dyslexia diagnosis, it is necessary to get a full educational or neuropsychological assessment. These assessments are complex, involving a large number of interrelated tests and tasks administered by a professional.

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Edublox has been involved in teaching children to read, learn and achieve for more than 30 years. Most of our students over the years had a reading difficulty, and in many cases, their reading difficulty was so severe that they had been diagnosed with dyslexia.

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The Orton-Gillingham (OG) method is brilliant. It's a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia. Why does research not back it up?

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Weak cognitive skills prevent a process called orthographic mapping. Every word has three forms: its sounds, spelling, and meaning. The process of orthographic mapping involves the brain linking the three forms of the word and storing them together in long-term memory. It allows for instant word recognition, fluent reading, and accurate spelling.

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Research shows that a network of brain regions is involved in learning to read, one specifically in sounding out words, and another in seeing words as pictures. The picture area is known as the visual word form area (VWFA) or visual dictionary.

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The application of certain educational learning principles is a core aspect that has so far been overlooked in dyslexia interventions. Thorndike (1874–1949) called learning principles the “laws of learning” and provided a conceptual foundation for how people learn.

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Where does the term dyslexia come from? How common is the problem? Is dyslexia tied to IQ? Does the dyslexic’s brain differ from the normal reader’s brain? Was Albert Einstein dyslexic?

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