Learning differences (DYS)

• DLD (dysphasia) DLD, developmental language disorder (formerly dysphasia), is a lasting difficulty using language, in comprehension, in expression, or both. The brain processes language differently, and each person has their own profile… View the explanations
• Dysarthria Dysarthria makes speech difficult to produce because the muscles used to articulate, to give voice or to control the breath no longer respond correctly. The command comes from the brain following a neurological injury, a… View the explanations
• Dyscalculia Dyscalculia makes the relationship with numbers and arithmetic lastingly difficult, while reasoning itself works very well elsewhere. Counting, comparing quantities, setting out a calculation or telling the time can stay… View the explanations
• Dysgraphia Dysgraphia affects the act of writing itself. Forming letters demands constant effort, writing is slow and tiring, and its legibility varies from one line to the next, sometimes within a single word. The content is not t… View the explanations
• Dyslexia Dyslexia makes decoding written text lastingly costly, even though intelligence and curiosity are intact. Letters blur together or seem to move, and reading calls on energy that most people do not need to spend. Reading … View the explanations
• Dysorthographia Dysorthographia is a lasting difficulty with spelling, often associated with dyslexia. The rule can be perfectly known and the same mistake still come back, several times on the same word. It is neither laziness nor a la… View the explanations
• Dyspraxia Dyspraxia, also called developmental coordination disorder, makes planning movements difficult. Tying laces, writing, cutting, catching a ball: what most people do without thinking demands full concentration here. The re… View the explanations
• Stuttering Stammering affects the fluency of speech, not thought or intelligence. In a person who stammers, the idea is perfectly formed, but the move into speech runs into blocks: a sound that repeats, a syllable that stretches ou… View the explanations
• Word-finding difficulty Dysnomia affects access to the word, not knowledge of it. The person recognises the object perfectly, knows what it is for, has almost the whole sentence in mind, but the exact name stays blocked at the very last second.… View the explanations

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