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Introduction Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterised by slow and inaccurate word recognition. Developmental dyslexia causes difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and spelling. Learning difficulties associated with dyslexia may be caused by: Visual problems through not being able to recognise shape and form. Reading speed, accuracy or comprehension. Phoneme segmentation (cannot see or hear the components and then put them together to create meaning and to spell the words). Acquired dyslexias This is reading impairment following some form of brain insult in individuals with previously normal levels of reading ability. It is frequently associated with aphasia where patients will exhibit a type of dyslexia in keeping with their form of aphasia - eg, fluent aphasics will have difficulties understanding printed word meanings while non-fluent aphasics will have trouble with grammatical aspects of reading. Epidemiology Dyslexi...