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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  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. Reading disability - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. Characteristic features of dyslexia are difficulties in phonological awareness, verbal memory and verbal processing speed. Dyslexia occurs across the range of intellectual abilities.

  8. Semantic dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    When confronted with the word "diamond", they may understand it as "sapphire", "shiny" or "diamonds"; when asking for a bus ticket, they may ask for some paper or simply "a thing". Semantic dementia (SD) is a degenerative disease characterized by atrophy of anterior temporal regions (the primary auditory cortex; process auditory information ...

  9. Phonological dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    The major distinguishing symptom of acquired phonological dyslexia is that a selective impairment of the ability to read pronounceable non-words occurs although the ability to read familiar words is not affected. It has also been found that the ability to read non-words can be improved if the non-words belong to a family of pseudohomophones. [2 ...