DYSLEXIA Hiding in Plain Sight: Less understood and more prevalent than realized and holding the key to students' reading performance.

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Title: DYSLEXIA Hiding in Plain Sight: Less understood and more prevalent than realized and holding the key to students' reading performance.
Authors: BERMAN, SHELDON Sheldon.berman@andoverma.us, STETSON, SARA B.
Source: School Administrator. Aug2017, Vol. 74 Issue 7, p33-37. 5p. 3 Color Photographs.
Subject Terms: *Dyslexia, *Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (Test)
Company/Entity: National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project) , International Dyslexia Association
People: Berman, Sheldon, Stetson, Sara B.
Abstract: In this article, author Sheldon Berman and Sara B. Stetson describes, Dyslexia as a cloaked myth which is less understood and more prevalent due to the late identification. Dyslexia is not a single deficit but rather an array of language and cognitive processing issues that range in severity. It is a linguistic disability and not a common one but the common cause of reading, writing and spelling difficulties.
Database: Education Research Complete
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Abstract:In this article, author Sheldon Berman and Sara B. Stetson describes, Dyslexia as a cloaked myth which is less understood and more prevalent due to the late identification. Dyslexia is not a single deficit but rather an array of language and cognitive processing issues that range in severity. It is a linguistic disability and not a common one but the common cause of reading, writing and spelling difficulties.
ISSN:00366439