Dyslexia is a difficulty in reading and spelling despite good ability. Diagnosed with dyslexia, support for dyslexia, dyslexia assessment.
It has nothing to do with intelligence, and the difficulty is in connecting sounds to letters rather than in seeing them backwards, which is the commonest misunderstanding. Around one person in ten is affected to some degree, and structured teaching helps.
1noundyslexiaA difficulty in reading and spelling despite good ability.
“Because of her dyslexia, she gets extra time to read the questions in exams.”
dyslexia is a difficulty.
Coined in German in 1887 from Greek dys-, difficult, plus lexis, word or speech.
Proto-Indo-European
*leǵ-
Ancient Greek
δυσ-
German
Dyslexie
French
dyslexie
English, today
dyslexia
Built from
French dyslexie and/or German Dyslexie, coined by Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from dys + lexis + -ia, from Ancient Greek δυσ- + λέξις (“diction”, “word”), from Ancient Greek λέγω (“to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European leg- (“to collect, gather; to speak”). The term was coined with λέξις being taken to mean "reading," likely due to semantic conflation of Greek λέγω (“to speak”) and Latin legō (“to read”). by surface analysis, dys- + lex(is) + -ia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA