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  2. Dysgraphia - Wikipedia

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    Dysgraphia can be difficult to diagnose because the handwriting starts out clear and slowly degrades, making the writer falsely appear lazy. Motor dysgraphia (sometimes called peripheral dysgraphia) [16] is due to deficient fine motor skills, poor dexterity, poor muscle tone or unspecified motor clumsiness.

  3. Dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the head, pronouncing words when reading aloud and understanding what one reads. [3] [7] Often these difficulties are first noticed at school. [2] The difficulties are involuntary, and people with this disorder have a normal desire to ...

  4. Reading disability - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. Characteristic features of dyslexia are difficulties in phonological awareness, verbal memory and verbal processing speed. Dyslexia occurs across the range of intellectual abilities.

  5. Orthographies and dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, children show a greater difficulty throughout schooling when spelling words with irregular or unusual orthographies when compared to their other children. Research also shows that dyslexic children have primary difficulties in phonological processing and secondary difficulties in orthographic processing, aiding to the distinction ...

  6. Disorder of written expression - Wikipedia

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    Poor writing skills must interfere significantly with academic progress or daily activities that involves written expression [1] (spelling, grammar, handwriting, punctuation, word usage, etc.). [2] This disorder is also generally concurrent with disorders of reading and/or mathematics, as well as disorders related to behavior.

  7. Characteristics of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Spelling errors — Because of difficulty learning letter-sound correspondences, individuals with dyslexia might tend to misspell words, or leave vowels out of words. Letter order - People with dyslexia may also reverse the order of two letters, especially when the final, incorrect, word looks similar to the intended word.

  8. 'I Almost Died of a Stroke At Age 43—Here's the First ... - AOL

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    He realizes now that the stroke absolutely could have been life-threatening “if I had ignored the initial warning signs, or my wife hadn’t quickly called 911 to get me to the hospital,” he says.

  9. Paraphasia - Wikipedia

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    Neologistic paraphasias, a substitution with a non-English or gibberish word, follow pauses indicating word-finding difficulty. [13] They can affect any part of speech, and the previously mentioned pause can be used to indicate the relative severity of the neologism; less severe neologistic paraphasias can be recognized as a distortion of a real word, and more severe ones cannot.