Education
What is Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that primarily affects reading skills. Individuals with dyslexia typically have difficulty with:
Accurate and fluent word recognition
Spelling and decoding
Reading comprehension
Phonological processing (manipulating sounds in words)
Dyslexia is not related to intelligence and can occur in individuals of all intellectual abilities. Effective interventions for dyslexia often involve structured, multisensory literacy instruction, such as the Orton-Gillingham approach. Accommodations may include extra time for reading tasks, text-to-speech software, and audiobooks.