What are the types of dyslexic or reading disabilities in children?
There are 2 basic categories: (1) Primary or developmental dyslexia (2) Secondary dyslexia. What is primary or developmental dyslexia? Primary dyslexia occurs due to no known reason. The child exhibits inability, or very poor ability to read, but characteristically has an average or superior intellectual potential. As long as instruction and teaching were oral, the child did very well, but the moment he went to a higher class where more and more learning is based on the reading comprehension, the child fell back pregressively, despite the parents’ and teachers’ best efforts. What are secondary reading disabilities? These reading disabilities are due to some traceable cause and are thus “secondary” to some disorder. They constitute the most frequent cause of reading disorders and are of many types: only the four common types are being discussed here. (1) Dyslexia due to slow maturation This type of reading disability is secondary to an immature development of the child. The immaturity w
