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Dyslexia

How is it treated?

Early language-based intervention, focusing on developing awareness of sound pattern in words and their links to letter patterns is effective. It is harder to improve the skills of older children and adults, but this can be done with one-to-one multisensory teaching.

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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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