ABSTRACT
In every country one can find a significant number of children whose
performance in reading, writing and spelling falls considerably below the
average range. Although the origins of such difficulties can be easily
explained for some children, for example, because of hearing/visual
impairment, autism, brain damage, there are many others, often in
mainstream schools, for whom the cause is less evident. Many of this latter
group are considered to have a specific disorder, dyslexia, which although far
from understood, is believed to have an underlying neurological cause and be
particularly related to language.
