What is functional dyslexia?

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What is functional dyslexia?

Answer 1

Basically it is both a speech and language disorder. The reversing of letters is more about confusion of symbols (the letters) than it is the dyslexia itself.

Excerpt from the source: "The most common receptive language disorder is functional dyslexia. Shaywitz believes that 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."5 It occurs in between 5% to 17.5% of children and with an equal s*x distribution. Gene linkage studies reveal abnormalities on chromosomes 6 and 15 in these individuals.

The processing defect is now felt to be in the area of phonologic awareness. An ophthalmologist can suspect the diagnosis of dyslexia by merely asking the parent if the child has difficulty reading or sounding out words as opposed to whole word recognition. Letter reversals, which often represent mere symbol confusion, are most often outgrown and do not imply the presence of dyslexia."

Answer 2

dyslexia is the specific disorder that affects the ability to read.

Answer 3

It starts off as you cant read. Then you become a great reader then you for get to read again and then it f***s with your head its horrible.