Reading, like other skills, is something that children acquire and develop at their own speed. It's normal for children to find reading difficult at some time in their lives. However, if learning to read becomes a constant struggle that causes a youngster to fall behind his peers, he may have dyslexia, a learning problem.

The most frequent symptom of dyslexia is difficulty learning to read. It has an impact on a child's capacity to detect and manipulate language sounds. Dyslexic children struggle to decode new words or break them down into digestible bits that they can subsequently sound out.

Dyslexia affects one out of every five children, and it affects 80 to 90 percent of children with learning disabilities. Many children go misdiagnosed because their problems in school are wrongly attributed to intellect, amount of effort, or environmental circumstances, according to Sally Shaywitz, MD, co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity.

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