Commonly Used Dyslexia Labels
Listed below are many of the labels* that have been used to identify individuals with learning disabilities that we have successfully worked with:
| 1. Acalculia 2. Agraphia 3. Asperges (1944, Hans Asperges referred to his research having children including those with signs of dyslexia.) 4. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) 5. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 6. Attention Deficit Lethargy Disorder (ADLD) 7. Audio Processing Disorder 8. Auditory Discrimination 9. Auditory Perceptual Deficits 10. Auditory Processing Disorder 11. Central Auditory Processing Disorder 12. Concept Imagery Disorder 13. Conceptual Deficit 14. Conceptual Disorder 15. Conduct Disorder 16. DAMP – Deficit of Attention, Motor Coordination and Perception 17. De Morsier’s Syndrome aka Septo-optic Dysphasia 18. Deep Dyslexia 19. Developmental Aphasia 20. Developmental Arithmetic Disorder (Dyscalculia) 21. Developmental Articulation Disorder 22. Developmental Coordination Disorder 23. Developmental Dyslexia 24. Developmental Expressive Language Disorder 25. Developmental Gerstmann’s Syndrome 26. Developmental ReadingDisorder | 27. Developmental Receptive Language Disorder 28. Developmental Writing Disorder 29. Disorder of Written Expression (DSM IV – 315.2) 30. Double-Deficit Dyslexia 31. Dysarthria 32. Dyseidetic Dyslexia, or Dyseidesia 33. Dysgraphia 34. Dyslexia 35. Dysnomia 36. Dysphonetic Dyslexia, or Dysphonesia 37. Dyspraxia (clumsiness) 38. Dysrhythmia 39. Educational Disabilities 40. Environmental Disorder 41. Eye Convergence Insufficiency 42. Failure Syndrome 43. Gestalt Lead Thinking 44. Hyperactivity aka Hyperkinesis 45. Hyperplexia 46. Hypoactivity 47. Impulsivity 48. Invisible Handicap 49. Landau-Kleffner Syndrome aka 50. Acquired Epiletiform Aphasia 51. Language Disorder 52. Language-Based Problem 53. Lazy Syndrome 54. Learning Disabled (LD) 55. Learning Disorder 56. Learning Handicap 57. Learning Problems 58. Minimal Brain Dysfunction (MBD) 59. Mixed Laterality or Lateral Confusion 60. Motor Deficits 61. Motor Output Deficits 62. Neurofibromatosis 63. Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD) 64. Orthographic Dyslexia | 65. Perceptual Handicap 66. Reading Comprehension Discrepancy 67. Reading Disability 68. ReadingDisorder (DSM IV – 315.00) 69. Scoptic Sensitivity Syndrome (Irlen’s Syndrome) 70. Semantic-Pragmatic Disorder 71. Sensory Disintegration Disorder 72. Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) 73. Serious Emotional Overlay 74. Spatial Relationships and Body Awareness Deficits 75. Specific Learning Disability (SLD) 76. Strephosymbolia 77. Surface Dyslexia 78. Syndrome I Language Disorder 79. Syndrome II Articulatory and Graphomotor Dyscoordination 80. Syndrome III: Visuospatial Perceptual Disorder 81. Verbal Apraxia 82. Visual Dyslexia 83. Visual Motor Deficits 84. Visual Perceptual Deficits 85. Visual Processing Disorder 86. Word Blindness * Abigail Marshal, Webmaster for DDAI (Davis Dyslexia Association International) provided more than 50 of these labels; the others came from other dyslexia facilitators and Internet dyslexia sites. |
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