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Introduction: What Is Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty affecting literacy development. Children and adults with developmental dyslexia show difficulties in reading and spelling that are not explicable in terms of their age, intelligence, or educational experience. Children with dyslexia typically have marked difficulties in learning to read and spell words, though their understanding of what they read may be good. These difficulties are often accompanied by difficulties in short-term memory and organization. In adulthood, the word-reading difficulties may resolve, but spelling and other underlying difficulties remain.

Snowling, M. J., & Carroll, J. M. (2011). Dyslexia. In P. C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences . Cambridge University Press. Credo Reference: https://saintleo.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/cupelanscis/dyslexia/0?institutionId=796

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