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  2. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Inclusive language: words to use when writing about disability - Office for Disability Issues and Department for Work and Pensions (UK) List of terms to avoid when writing about disability – National Center on Disability and Journalism; Nović, Sara (30 March 2021). "The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use". BBC Worklife

  3. Dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia is not limited to difficulty in converting letters to sounds, and Chinese people with dyslexia may have difficulty converting Chinese characters into their meanings. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] The Chinese vocabulary uses logographic, monographic, non-alphabet writing where one character can represent an individual phoneme.

  4. Characteristics of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Letter addition/subtraction - People with dyslexia may perceive a word with letters added, subtracted, or repeated. This can lead to confusion between two words containing most of the same letters. Highly phoneticized spelling - People with dyslexia also commonly spell words inconsistently, but in a highly phonetic form, such as writing "shud ...

  5. Outline of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability that affects either reading or writing. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the head, pronouncing words when reading aloud and understanding what one ...

  6. Surface dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Surface dyslexia is a type of dyslexia, or reading disorder. [1] [2] According to Marshall & Newcombe's (1973) and McCarthy & Warrington's study (1990), patients with this kind of disorder cannot recognize a word as a whole due to the damage of the left parietal or temporal lobe.

  7. Britain's oldest teacher looks back on his legacy

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    Dual celebrations are happening for Britain's oldest teacher this month - not only is he marking his 90th birthday, but also the impact he has had on dyslexia education over six decades.

  8. Why it took 7 years for Cher to write her new memoir — and ...

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    Having dyslexia was a factor, but so was slogging through a lifetime of memories, many of which were admittedly “very painful.” “Some of them were easy, some of them were fun, and some of ...

  9. Deep dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Deep dyslexia is considered to be a "central dyslexia" as compared to a "peripheral dyslexia". Peripheral dyslexics have difficulty matching the visual characteristics of letters that comprise a word to a stored memory of this word from prior encounters. [4] Central dyslexics are unable to properly match the visual word to the word's meaning. [4]