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3) if the pupil performed as well as other pupils of the same age in similar conditions. Other definitions of dyslexia When looking at attempts to describe and define dyslexia, it seems odd to come across perspectives that present reading, writing and spelling difficulties as apparently being only conditional characteristics of dyslexia. Peer and Reid (2003) suggest: Children with dyslexia will usually, but not always, have difficulty with reading. (p. 9, italics added) . . spelling difficulties are often an obvious characteristic of dyslexia.

Helen Irlen found that some students in high school and at university in the United States of America who were poor readers had a particular sensitivity to black print on white paper, especially where the print was faint, the paper was glossy and fluorescent lighting was used. Words appeared to move around the page and the glare from the page tended to cause eye irritation. For some pupils, spectacles with tinted lenses or coloured page overlays appear to help reduce the glare and stabilise the image of the words on the page.

2004) Dyslexia, Reading and the Brain: A Sourcebook of Psychological and Biological Research, London, Psychology Press. This book gives a lucid, even-handed view of a vast range of research and thinking around dyslexia. In the first part, concerning the ‘cognitive context’, the author considers difficulties in defining dyslexia; the theoretical context of normal reading development; phonological awareness and phonological recoding; the general language context; and auditory perception, the temporal processing deficit hypothesis and motor skills.

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