[oib]

To qoute user obeone from this thread:

According to Alice Wellborn, a dyslexia expert of some note: Many years ago, researchers believed that dyslexia was a visual perceptual problem - that it was based in how a person saw letters and words. Now we know for sure, through brain imaging studies, that dyslexia is a problem in the language system of the brain, not the visual system.

Dyslexia is the result of a significant weakness in the phonological processing system, or how a person's brain understands and can use the sound-based reading "code". A dyslexic reader has difficulty cracking that code.

[mgrennan]

As a dyslexic of some repute, (I'm 60) I can't say both are turn. Both visual (dbpq9) queuing and audible (phonics) apply. I believe the difference in test done by people like Ms Wellborn are because of the changes in the way children are tough. "Hooked on phonics" is now thought as bad.

[kazinator]

> Dyslexia is the result of a significant weakness in the phonological processing system

Does that mean that dyslexics have trouble with the spoken word? The Wikipedia page lists such issues as associated conditions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia#Associated_conditions

``Many people with dyslexia have auditory processing problems ...''

[mgrennan]

Yes, some dyslexis like myself do. For example Pin and Pen both sound the same to me. I don't care how you try to pronounce them or with different accents. They are always the same.