Dyslexia is also associated with deeper aspects of reading, whether it’s understanding story structure, or weaving together complex relationships and themes that others may miss.
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Often there are other factors like more significant auditory processing, working memory, or visual processing difficulties that can make progress in reading much slower.
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Bilingual students who are also dyslexic need to get formally identified, so that their intelligence may not be overlooked in the classroom, and they may have appropriate supports.
In a recent study, dyslexic adults were found to be stronger in visual curiosity when trying to understand what they were seeing or puzzling through gaps in what they might have expected.
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