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Dyslexia is an overused term which is frequently used as a catch all to categorize children with reading and spelling difficulties. To many an uninformed person, dyslexia is reduced to the exhibition of one primary trait, the tendency to see or spell words backwards. While letter reversal is a common occurrence among dyslexics, the scope of this disorder expands far beyond the mere reversal of letters. Dyslexia Defined In truth, dyslexia is a specific disorder with a narrow definition. The research definition used by the National Institute of Health describes dyslexia as a specific learnin...