This Web site provides information and resources about adults with dyslexia. It is intended for students, faculty, and staff at the community college level, but is instructive for students, teachers, and staff at the primary and secondary school levels and four-year college and university levels as well. Resources links are provided throughout the site.

What is dyslexia?

Most of the articles in the literature have defined dyslexia in varied ways, but their topics appear to suggest one point: dyslexia is the inability to read words (Alexander & Slinger-Constant, 2004; Hudson, High, & Otaiba, 2007). Moreover, "dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities" (Lyon, Shaywitz, & Shaywitz, 2003). In addition, dyslexic readers often have difficulties with reading comprehension (Hudson et al., 2007). The word specific is used to denote that only a particular area of learning ability is affected such as poor reading skills (Long, MacBlain, & MacBlain, 2007).

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