Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming.

" Dyslexia is a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read.

In addition, Hundt is on the advisory boards of the Yale School of Management and the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity.

Nicholls is also the home of the Louisiana Center for Women and Government as well as the Dyslexia Center of Louisiana.

The protagonist is a dyslexic vicar, and the book was written to benefit the Dyslexia Institute in London ( now Dyslexia Action ), with Dahl and Blake donating their rights.

The Reverend Robert Lee, the new vicar of Nibbleswicke, is suffering from a rare and acutely embarrassing condition: Back-to-Front Dyslexia, a fictional type of dyslexia that causes the sufferer to say the most important word ( often being the verb ) in a sentence backwards, creating comedic situations.

Dyslexia is a more specific disability where individuals demonstrate difficulty with decoding.

Clinomorphism is usually the basis for controversy in medical conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ( aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ), ADHD, and Dyslexia where consensus is not easily established concerning the validity of the conditions and clinomorphism is in fact seen as pejorative, so that clinomorphic references to these conditions are ascribed respectively to being " cowardice ", " malingering ", " disobedience " and " stupidity ".

In 2009, Boorman was made president of Dyslexia Action ; being dyslexic himself, Boorman is passionate about the cause and is keen to help the charity achieve its vision of a world where barriers are removed for those with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke defines reading disability or dyslexia as follows: " Dyslexia is a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read.

Dyslexia is a learning disability that manifests itself as a difficulty with reading decoding, reading comprehension and / or reading fluency.

Since then she has become a prominent campaigner in the UK on dyslexia issues and was President of the Dyslexia Institute from 1995 – 1998.

Dyslexia and IQ are not interrelated, since reading and cognition develop independently in individuals who have dyslexia.

This comprises five specially trained teachers to help students with learning difficulties such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia.

Phoenix's first acting jobs were guest appearances on two television shows with his brother River in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ( 1982 ), and Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia ( 1984 ) as well as an episode in the first season of Murder, She Wrote ( We're Off to Kill the Wizard ) with his sister Summer Phoenix.

A context-sensitive spell checker appears in Microsoft Office 2007, Google Wave, Ginger Software and in Ghotit Dyslexia Software context spell checker tuned for people with dyslexia.

The International Dyslexia Association suggests the use of kinesthetic memory through early training by having the child overlearn how to write letters and to later practice writing with their eyes closed or averted to reinforce the feel of the letters being written.

* Dyslexia – a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming.

Interventions that target decoding abilities may include instruction in phonics, phonological awareness, and phonemic awareness ( also see Dyslexia intervention ).

Dyslexia and IQ are not interrelated as a result of cognition developing independently.

Less than a month after Celebrity came the ABC Afterschool Special: Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia.

After River's role in Dyslexia was critically acclaimed, he was almost immediately cast as a major role in his next made-for-TV movie, Surviving: A Family in Crisis.

Her second book, The Maternal Instinct ( 1984 ), discussed women and fertility issues and she published a collection of interviews Every Letter Counts: Winning in Life Despite Dyslexia in 1990.

In 2003, Waterstones announced it was supporting Dyslexia Action as its chosen charity, helping to raise awareness and understanding for dyslexia.

* Dyslexia — Westview's top student, Barry Balderman once failed to take his exams, and thus failed to graduate.

Coleman and Puleo have worked together on a project called Audio Dyslexia.

Context-based grammar checkers appear in Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2007, Google Wave, Ghotit Dyslexia Software, and WhiteSmoke.

He has represented the Welsh Dyslexia Project, and also completed an autobiography as part of the Accent Press Quick Reads series.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.

Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.

Yet the attitude that the fate of the Presidency demands in such a situation is quite distinct from the simple courage that can proceed with battles to be fought, regardless of the consequences.

Indeed, in the Halma edition of Theon's presentation of The Hypotheses there is a chart setting out ( under six distinct headings ) otherwise unrelated diagrams for describing the planetary motions.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

If ( remember this is an assumption ) the minimal polynomial for T decomposes Af where Af are distinct elements of F, then we shall show that the space V is the direct sum of the null spaces of Af.

To maintain their intermediate position in the larger society, it is not only necessary that members of this population be `` visible '', but that their numbers be great enough to be recognized as a separate, distinct grouping or system in society.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

The existence of conflict and of vigorous union demand for an increase in money wages does not contradict the assumption that the union is willing to settle for cost-of-living and productivity-share increases as distinct from a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate.

The dissection of scientific theory, the examination of a theory from the vantage-points of language, epistemology, and ethics, is itself a distinct contribution to knowledge, no less so because of its removal from empirical research.

London explains that the very distinct directional effect in the Phase 4 series is due in large part to their novel methods of microphoning and recording the music on a number of separate tape channels.

Much of the distinct character of France's anthropology today is a result of the fact that most anthropology is carried out in nationally funded research laboratories ( CNRS ) rather than academic departments in universities

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Thus a simple count of the number of distinct symbols is an important clue to the nature of an unknown script.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

With German being a pluricentric language, Austrian dialects should not be confused with the variety of Standard German spoken by most Austrians, which is distinct from that of Germany or Switzerland.