what do you mean by "dyslexic"?

Answer 1

Of or relating to or symptomatic of dyslexia

Dyslectic: having impaired ability to comprehend written words usually associated with a neurologic disorder
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Developmental dyslexia is a condition or learning disability which causes difficulty with reading and writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexic

Answer 2

Dyslexia is a learning disability characterized by problems in reading, spelling, writing, speaking, or listening. In many cases, dyslexia appears to be inherited.

Description

The word dyslexia is derived from the Greek word, dys (meaning poor or inadequate) and the word lexis (meaning words or language).

The National Institutes of Health estimates that about 15% of the United States population is affected by learning disabilities, mostly with problems in language and reading. The condition appears in all ages, races, and income levels. Dyslexia is not a disease, but describes rather a different kind of mind that learns in a different way from other people. Many people with the condition are gifted and very productive; dyslexia is not at all linked to low intelligence. In fact, intelligence has nothing to do with dyslexia.

Dyslexic children seem to have trouble learning early reading skills, problems hearing individual sounds in words, analyzing whole words in parts, and blending sounds into words. Letters such as "d" and "b" may be confused.

When a person is dyslexic, there is often an unexpected difference between achievement and aptitude. However, each person with dyslexia has different strengths and weaknesses, although many have unusual talents in art, athletics, architecture, graphics, drama, music, or engineering. These special talents are often in areas that require the ability to integrate sight, spatial skills, and coordination.

Often, a person with dyslexia has a problem translating language into thought (such as in listening or reading), or translating thought into language (such as in writing or speaking).

Common characteristics include problems with:

identifying single words
understanding sounds in words, sound order, or rhymes
spelling
transposing letters in words
handwriting
reading comprehension
delayed spoken language
confusion with directions, or right/left handedness
confusion with opposites (up/down, early/late, and so on)
mathematics

Answer 3

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that manifests primarily as a difficulty with written language, particularly with reading and spelling. It is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as deficiencies in intelligence, a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction.[1]

Evidence suggests that dyslexia results from differences in how the brain processes written and/or verbal language. Although dyslexia is the result of a neurological difference, it is not an intellectual disability. Dyslexia occurs at all levels of intelligence, average, above average, and highly gifted. [2]

The word dyslexia comes from the Greek words δυσ- dys- ("impaired") and λέξις lexis ("word"). People with dyslexia are called dyslexic or dyslectic.

Answer 4

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that manifests primarily as a difficulty with written language, particularly with reading and spelling. It is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as deficiencies in intelligence, a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction.[1]

Evidence suggests that dyslexia results from differences in how the brain processes written and/or verbal language. Although dyslexia is the result of a neurological difference, it is not an intellectual disability. Dyslexia occurs at all levels of intelligence, average, above average, and highly gifted.

Answer 5

Having impaired ability to comprehend written words usually associated with a neurologic disorder

school children with this disorders need special care

Answer 6

dyslexia is a disorder in which you read right to left (backwards) and ofcourse its diagnosed when the child first starts to say or read certain words. like someone how if a child says "bisgetti" instead of spaghetti its an early sign

Answer 7

This is caused by a condition of the brain,will have abnormal difficulty in reading and spelling.

Answer 8

in a nutshell, the transposition of letters.