Dyslexia: Why Is This Diagnosis so Challenging?

Dyslexia, the most commonly identified learning disability, frequently goes unidentified in school age children, especially when children perform adequately on high stakes tests. The purpose of this paper is to aid speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in diagnosing children who have dyslexia. We address profiles of behavioral strengths and weaknesses that are characteristic of these children and we present sample evaluation profiles of a few children with dyslexia that we have tested over the past decade.