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How and to what extent is dyslexia a cognitive deficit? Draw on different explanations of dyslexia to build you argument.
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Option B: How and to what extent is dyslexia a cognitive deficit? Draw on different explanations of dyslexia to build you argument. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which is indicative of people having difficulties in learning to read and write (Wood and Richardson, 2002). This is a complex condition which may manifest itself in different and varying degrees in each individual case although a number of core difficulties have been identified which may indicate a person has the condition. These difficulties include; coding verbal and visual information for example associating an individual letter grapheme with its phoneme; phonological difficulties in dealing with information in the short-term memory; difficulties in sequencing information and directional confusion (Wood and Richardson, 2002). In order to discuss the explanations associated with the cognitive deficit of dyslexia we must first understand why dyslexia is not considered 'normal' in today's literate society, how it is defined and...
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