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Essay On Dyslexia

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DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF READING DIFFICULTY (DYSLEXIA)
* Thamilselvan .P and **Priyadharsini .K
*Assistant Professor and ** II Year Postgraduate Trainee, Department of Psychology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore-641014.
ABSTRACT
Background: Dyslexia is a type of learning disability that manifests difficulty with word decoding, reading comprehension and/or reading fluency which affects between 5–17% of the population. It is a general term for disorders involving a failure to learn to read, or specific difficulties in the interpretations of words or letters, despite adequate general intelligence. Aim: The present study aimed is to development and validation of the instrument for the assessment of reading difficulty (Dyslexia). Methodology: A total of 185 parents of children with studying 4th standard to 8th standard were selected from the schools residing at …show more content…

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Reading disability (Dyslexia) is a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2013). Individuals typically read at levels significantly lower than expected despite having normal intelligence. Reading errors are reads word by word, ignores punctuation, adds words, omits words, cannot use phonetic cues, spells out words, guesses at words and reversals (Uma Hirisave, Anna Oommen and Malavika Kapur,

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