Talk:Reading disability

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I've started in on expanding this stub by sketching out the definition section. This needs references, of course. I think it is important that this article differ from the dyslexia article, and deals with reading comprehension and fluency problems. ---- Vannin (talk) 20:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page expansion

Hi, Vannin. I'm glad you're expanding this page.

I made a few text edits but did not change the information being conveyed.

One thing that seems a bit awkward to me is how to refer to difficulties with fluency, and to a lesser extent, reading comprehension, given that they do not have specific names for the difficulties (there is nothing equivalent to WLRD). It appears that Fletcher, Lyon et. al. have a similar difficulty. But I notice that they point out that difficulty with reading fluency and comprehension has not been studied sufficiently to be defined as reading disabilities per se, but that it seems likely that they are disabilities unto themselves (p. 164).

I'm wondering whether it might be good to approach these two areas in a similar manner, especially since their book is the primary reference for the article.

Thoughts?

Rosmoran (talk) 19:51, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

How about a change to the section heading - from types of reading disorders to types of reading difficulties?--Vannin (talk) 16:56, 26 November 2007 (UTC)