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  2. Reading disability - Wikipedia

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    Comprehension may be affected as a result of difficulties with decoding, but is not a primary feature of dyslexia. It is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction. [4]

  3. Dysgraphia - Wikipedia

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    The underlying causes of the disorder are not fully understood, [15] but dysgraphia is known to have genetic causes. [3] More specifically, it is a working memory problem [13] caused by specific neurodevelopmental dysfunction. [9] In dysgraphia, individuals fail to develop normal connections among different brain regions needed for writing. [13]

  4. Dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Causes: Genetic and environmental factors [2] ... The outward expression of individuals with reading disability, and regular poor readers, is the same in some respects.

  5. Deep dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Deep dyslexia is a form of dyslexia that disrupts reading processes.Deep dyslexia may occur as a result of a head injury, stroke, disease, or operation. [1] This injury results in the occurrence of semantic errors during reading and the impairment of nonword reading.

  6. Literacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts law further mandated that towns with 50 or more households appoint a teacher to provide reading instruction to local children, while towns with 100 or more households were required to establish a grammar school. [6] Before colonization, oral storytelling and communication comprised most, if not all, of Native American literacy ...

  7. Pure alexia - Wikipedia

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    'The supported reading stimulation from MOR has a rehabilitative effect so that reading rate and accuracy are better for untrained text, and word-form recognition improves as evidenced by a reduced word-length effect.' [10] These tactics have seen quite good success. Another tactic that has been employed is the use of cross modal therapy.

  8. Science of reading - Wikipedia

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    The model lists contributors to reading (and potential causes of reading difficulty) within, across, and beyond word recognition and language comprehension; including the elements of self-regulation. This feature of the model reflects the research documenting that not all profiles of reading difficulty are explained by low word recognition and ...

  9. Phonological dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Phonological dyslexia is a reading disability that is a form of alexia (acquired dyslexia), [1] resulting from brain injury, stroke, or progressive illness and that affects previously acquired reading abilities. The major distinguishing symptom of acquired phonological dyslexia is that a selective impairment of the ability to read pronounceable ...