What is a reading disability, handicap or disorder? Is it an innate disorder?
A specific human functional disability, whether physical, intellectual or emotional, can be defined in terms of a significant insufficiency deviation from the so-called average normal functioning of the group in which that specific function is required and which is beneficial for that particular group. Thus all functional disabilities and handicaps are relative to the specific human group in which the individual lives. A person living in a rural community 500 years ago could not be “reading disabled” because almost no one in that community could read. In this matter, please understand I am NOT discussing the spoken/heard language, but its phonetically CODED SYMBOLS used in reading, spelling and writing that language. If our modern literate societies required (by law) that everyone to be able to draw a fine portrait of the human face, or compose a simple symphony, how many of YOU would be disabled artists, or disabled music composers? Learning to read, contrary to popular belief, is NOT
