Why Some Children Struggle to Learn to Read

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Although there is a large number of other “disabilities” to be found within the field of learning disabilities, a reading disability remains the most common. Estimates of learning-disabled students being reading disabled vary between 70 and 85 percent. Some experts are of the opinion that this percentage is even higher, so much so that labeling a child as learning disabled is understood to include a reading disability. If one evaluates the importance of reading in the learning situation, this opinion probably comes close to the truth. Reading is regarded as the most important skill that a child must acquire at school, because one must learn to read in order to be able to read to learn. The implication of this is that the child who is a poor reader will usually also be a poor learner.
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