Dyslexia is a disorder characterized by difficulty in learning to read that cannot be attributed to secondary organic, mechanical or social circumstances.
Keywords: dyslexia; specific reading difficulty; learning difficulty
Dyslexia
Kristen Pammer, University of Newcastle, Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne, UK
Published online: January 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001898
| Further Reading | |
| book Boder E (1973) "Developmental dyslexia: A diagnostic screening procedure based on three characteristic patterns of reading and spelling". In: Bateman B (ed.) Learning Disorders. Seattle: Special Child Publications. | |
| other Castles A and Coltheart M (1993) Varieties of developmental dyslexia. Cognition 47 (2): 149–180. | |
| book Critchley M (1970) The Dyslexic Child. London: William Heinemann Medical Books, pp. 11. | |
| book DeFries JC and Gillis JJ (1993) "Genetics of reading disability". In: Plomin R and McClearn G (eds) Nature, Nurture and Psychology. Washington DC: APA Press. | |
| Lovegrove W (1993) Weakness in the transient visual system. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 682: 57–69. | |
| Nicolson RI and Fawcett AJ (1999) Developmental dyslexia: the role of the cerebellum. Dyslexia: An International Journal of Research and Practice 5: 155–177. | |
| book Snowling M (2000) Dyslexia. Oxford: Blackwell. | |
| Stein JF and Talcott JB (1999) The magnocellular theory of dyslexia. Dyslexia 5: 59–78. | |
| book Wilkins A (1995) Visual Stress. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
