byslexia or dyslexia?

definition | types | development

There are about 20 types of dyslexia. Some are more serious than the others. This page contains several of these types so you can get an idea of what dyslexia is. In order to treat people with dyslexia, different groups categorize dyslexia into different subtopics according to their findings and discuss how they think dyslexia affects a person.

The P-type, the L-type, and the M-type is one way to categorize dyslexia:

• The P-type is a type of dyslexia that affects perception. The left side of the brain is used more often because the people with dyslexia can read rapidly. As a result, they tend to make more errors and do not comprehend what is happening; whatever they see they interpret. (For example, several students were asked to read aloud the following sentence. "The boy has a bat," and included above the sentence is a picture of a boy holding a bat and a ball. The dyslexic student may read aloud, "The boy has a ball," instead of "The boy has a bat," because the child might look at the picture instead of the word in the sentence.
  
  
• The L-type is the linguistic type of dyslexia where the right side of the brain is used more often because people with dyslexia read the material slowly and with difficulty; they try to comprehend every word.
  
  
• The M-type is the combination of the L- and P- type where people make errors involving both types.

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