Dyslexia

Developmental dyslexia is characterized by an unexpected difficulty in reading in children and adults who otherwise possess the intelligence, motivation, and schooling considered necessary for accurate and fluent reading. Dyslexia (or specific reading disability) is the most common and most carefully studied of the learning disabilities, affecting 80 percent of all those identified as learning-disabled.1 Although the diagnosis and implications of dyslexia were once quite uncertain, recent advances in our knowledge of its epidemiology, neurobiology, and genetics, as well as of the cognitive influences on this disorder, now allow physicians to approach dyslexia within the framework of a traditional medical . . .