Stella Cochrane
Dyslexia Understood
Assessment ~ Diagnosis ~ Tutoring
Dyslexia Understood
​What is Dyslexia?
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Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which mainly affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent reading and spelling. It can also affect working memory and information processing.
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Dyslexic people may have difficulty with processing and remembering the information they see and hear, which can affect their learning and the acquisition of literacy skills.
Impact
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Dyslexia is a neurological difference and can have a significant impact during education, in the workplace and in everyday life.
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Everyone’s experience of dyslexia may be different with varying impact. Dyslexia can co-occur with other specific learning difficulties and affect other skills. It usually runs in families and is a life-long condition.
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The Delphi Definition of Dyslexia
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