Types of Dyslexia

There are two main types of dyslexia:

Aquired Dyslexia which comes from a trauma to the brain or from stroke.

Developmental dyslexia or specific reading disability, a disorder in which children with average intelligence have primarily, language difficulties. It is brain based and affects their processing skills for reading, spelling, expressive or receptive speech. It can also cause difficulties in mathematics.

The following are the three main subtypes of developmental dyslexia:

 Dysphonetic

 A poor letter to sound connection and decoding skills. When reading these pupils might make visual mtakes like shAll for shEll or might subtitute words which have the same meaning eg. flower instead of daisy. They prefer the 'whole word' method of reading and are very visual learners.

 Dyseidectic

 These pupils have poor visual perception and memory for word patterns. They usually have good phonic skills but cannot always recognise words from the sound eg. ceiling becomes kelling.

 Mixed dyseidetic and dysphonetic

 This is a combination of both of the above and involves reading using both visual and phonic skills.