reading difficulty

A deficiency in a person's fluent use and comprehension of written language.

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The fact that the reading skill is one of the basic ways of learning increases the need for studies investigating how individuals, especially those who experience reading difficulty can become good readers.

The effect of repeated reading exercises with performance-based feedback on fluent reading skills

The results come in line with observations that phonological awareness is a strong predictor of reading disability in both children at general risk and genetic risk of reading difficulty.

Certain skills in young children may predict their reading ability

This study suggests that the Internet may hold the potential to provide students with easy and inexpensive access to reading materials at their correct level of reading difficulty and that such access may be positively associated with achievement.

An Internet-Delivered, Individually Differentiated Reading Program: Effects on Students' Literacy Achievement and Technology Skills

25) Similarly, if an optometrist treats a visual anomaly in a person with reading difficulties, they should never claim that it will definitely cure the reading difficulty.

Specific learning difficulties and vision

Dyslexia is one type of a reading difficulty, but not a separate special education categorical disability.

Dyslexia Defined. NetNews. Volume 5, Number 2

Analysis indicates that perception of reading difficulty tends to vary with the level of reading in the school: in schools where mean levels are higher, a child is more likely to be considered to have a reading difficulty than an equivalent child in a school where mean levels are lower.