Children and teens with dyslexia experience difficulties processing a language’s basic sounds. Dyslexia is also called auditory dyslexia because of how dyslexia impacts how the brain processes phonemes. With dyslexia, the human brain can’t accurately or efficiently process sounds or language.  Auditory dyslexia makes it hard for kids to distinguish the minor sound differences between words. They also need to

Although dyslexia is getting prevalent, it’s often misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Most still believe it is a visual problem when it is a language-based disorder with a problem in the brain in hearing or interpreting the sounds (phonemes) accurately.  It is an auditory processing or phonological processing problem. If they can’t accurately identify the phonemes, they can’t map the sounds to

Dyslexia’s neurobiological origin makes it a learning disability characterized by difficulties in word recognition, decoding, and spelling. Kids with dyslexia exhibit language deficits that affect phonological processing.  Dyslexia affects written and oral language. For example, children with dyslexia struggle with letters, numbers, writing, and phonics. Mapping letters to sounds is at the heart of dyslexia and affects how they decode