What is dyslexia?

Symptoms: There are several types of dyslexia, but what they have in common is the difficulty in reading comprehension. With proper instruction, this can be overcome.The cause is an unknown immaturitry of brain function.

Difficulty reading: It refers to a level of difficulty reading that is not expected for an individual of given intelligence and which interferes with achievement and functioning. The term is now replaced with a simpler label: reading disorder. For more here is an article i wrote a while back: http://cpancf.Com/articles_files/dyslexiareadingdisorder.Asp.

Dyslexia is the only: learning disability for which brain structure has been related to brain dysfunction. Read "Overcoming Dyslexia" by Dr. Sally Shaywitz. During functional MRI's different areas of the brains of readers vs. nonreaders were activated during a reading task. After 9 mos. of intensive multimodal reading therapy, the same areas of the brains of the non-readers were activated as those of the fluent readers