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Approximately three to six percent of school-aged children are believed to have developmental reading disabilities, or dyslexia. Dyslexia happens because of the way the brain processes information. Dyslexia is a neurocognitive deficit that is specifically related to the reading and spelling processes. Typically children with dyslexia have phonological core deficits. Phonological core deficits involve difficulty making use of phonological information when processing written and oral language. Most people think that dyslexia causes people to reverse letters and numbers and see words backwards. But reversals occur as a normal part of development, not only in people with dyslexia. The main problem in dyslexia is trouble recognizing phonemes, which are the basic sounds of speech (the "b" sound in "bat" is a phoneme, for example).

This is considered an invisible disability. These children have large vocabularies, excellent verbal skills and appear to be “normal”. In many cases......

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