A Handbook on Learning Disabilities - Child Develop

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Unlike speech and language, reading is not innate: It has to be taught. Reading requires the ability to decipher a phonetic code, to make sense of the relationship between written symbols (letters) and sounds. Dyslexia reflects a specific problem in processing individual speech sounds (e.g., the ssss sound, the mmm sound, etc) in words ...

  Speech, Sound