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Dyslexia is a learning disability that impairs a person's ability to read,^[1] and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, and/or rapid naming.^[2][3] Dyslexia is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction.^[4][5] It is estimated that dyslexia affects between 5 and 17 percent of the population.^[6][7][8]

There are three proposed cognitive subtypes of dyslexia: auditory, visual and attentional.^{[9][7][10][11][12][13]} Although dyslexia is not an intellectual disability, it is considered both a learning disability^[14][15] and a reading disability.^[14][16] Dyslexia and IQ are not interrelated, since reading and cognition develop independently in individuals who have dyslexia.^[17]