Abstract:Dyslexia is the most commonly diagnosed learning disability in the English-speaking world, affecting between 10 and 20 percent of the adult population of countries such as the United States, Britain, and Canada (International Dyslexia Association, 2016). While diagnosis and treatment of dyslexia focusses on the act of reading, the underlying cause of the condition is thought to be a phonological processing disorder that inhibits an individual’s ability to identify separate speech sounds (International Dyslexia… Show more
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