A learning disability that affects reading is _________

Learning disabilities are diagnosed particularly when children start going to school and are engaged in academic activities with other children in the school. It may be caused due to premature birth, low birth weight, and malnutrition.

Key Points

Dyslexia: 

• Dyslexia is a condition in which a child/student faces persistent challenges and difficulty in reading and comprehending the text because of frequently omitting substitutes or reversing the letters and words while reading.
• When one faces difficulty in reading, s/he can not spell the words properly and is unable to write them accurately as well. Students having dyslexia get confused between similar words, sounds of alphabets, and the same shapes of letters.
• Also, they will have problems in interpreting and understanding the letters and words. For example, the students can get confused between "69" and "96", and also they may read "saw" as "was".

Hence, it could be concluded that a learning disability that affects reading is dyslexia.

Hint 

• Dysgraphia is a deficiency that affects the ability to write coherently.
• Dyspraxia is a motor disorder that affects the coordination of tongue and lips to produce sounds.
• Dyscalculia is a type of mathematics-related learning disability that hinders learners' basic understanding of numbers.