- Impairment of the ability to read see Alexia A condition in which a person who shows normal intelligence and full comprehension of spoken words has difficulty reading
Unusual difficulty sounding out letters and confusing words that sound familiar The most common form of learning disability
A type of learning disability that affects reading ability More specifically: the individual may have problems remembering, recognizing , and or reversing written letters, numbers, and words, might read backwards, and have poor handwriting The term is frequently used when neurological dysfunction is suspected as the cause of the reading disability
A disorder where things are done or read backwards For example, a "d" and a "b" might be confused
A specific reading, writing and/or spelling dysfunction due to a slight brain dysfunction and/or differential brain function This means it could be caused by something physically wrong with the brain, or because the brain never really learned how to do it correctly in the first place