Students with Reading Disorders: Their Characteristics and Affected Skill Areas
Kazhaw Jafar Abdulla Barazanja
College of Education, Garmian University
Wirya Ahmed Ameen
College of Arts, Salahaddin University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.4.2.5
Keywords: Specific learning disability, Reading Disorder, Dyslexia
Abstract
Some children appear to grow normally until they face the academic demands of school. These learners cannot make their way continue compensating for the added content-learning demands. Their performance problems are sometimes rooted in reading disorders. Reading disorder is a specific learning disability described by disorders with correct and /or fluent word recognition, and poor spelling and decoding abilities. This study aims to highlight the characteristic features of reading disorder and the skill area affected by students suffering from reading so that they can be used as a basis for identifying this disorder among learners. The study concludes that the main characteristics of reading disorder could be found in the following areas 'reading, writing and the general aspect of learner's life'. Besides, the skill area affected by students with a reading disorder is realized by a deficit in the main components of being a good reader, that is: (reading decoding, word recognition, reading fluency, and reading comprehension). A deficit in one of these components could result in a reading disability by learners.
