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Dyslexia

How is it diagnosed?

Dyslexia is a complex, specific learning difficulty whose boundaries are not always clear in clinical practice. A significant difficulty in diagnosing dyslexia is that it often occurs alongside other specific difficulties such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyspraxia and/or with a mild Specific Language Impairment (SLI), although it often occurs in a relatively pure form too.

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Medical text written October 2005 by John Rack PhD, Director of Assessment and Research, The Dyslexia Institute, Egham, UK.

 

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