Psy-540 7-2 Short Paper: Dyslexiapsy-540 Cognitive Processes

PSY-540 7-2 Short Paper: DyslexiaPSY-540 Cognitive ProcessesSouthern New Hampshire University 08:39:34 GMT -05:00Dyslexia is a neurological learning disability that makes it difficult for those with the disability to process information they are reading or writing. This is a chronic learning disability that can affect their organizational skills as well. People who have dyslexia have a problem decoding the different speech sounds and their relation to letters and words. Their dyslexia is the result of differences in their brain that processes language (Snowling et al, 2020). When children grow, spoken language helps them to begin to read by associating certain sounds to certain letters and symbols. When a person has dyslexia they have trouble breaking down words into the different sounds and associating the sounds to the letters. Dyslexia can cause many problemssuch as slower reading, problems with spelling and writing, and trouble with sentence-forming that communicate complex ideas. Dyslexia represents between 80% and 90% of those people with a learning disability and is found in 1 of every 5 Americans (Borst, 2021).There are several different theories that attempt to explain the different aspects that contribute to dyslexia. One of those theories is the double-deficit theory. This