Journal
JOURNAL OF LEARNING DISABILITIES
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages 171-184Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/00222194211037062
Keywords
dyslexia; early identification; intervention; resilience
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- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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Considerable attention and legislation are currently focused on developmental dyslexia. A preventive approach in identifying and addressing reading disability risk factors before reading failure occurs is crucial. The article introduces a risk-resilience model that explains dyslexia is due to cumulative effects of risk and resilience factors.
Considerable attention and legislation are currently focused on developmental dyslexia. A major challenge to these efforts is how to define and operationalized dyslexia. In this article, we argue that rather than defining dyslexia on the basis of an underlying condition, dyslexia is best viewed as a label for an unexpected reading disability. This view fits well with a preventive approach in which risk for reading disability is identified and addressed prior to children experiencing reading failure. A risk-resilience model is introduced that proposes that dyslexia is due to the cumulative effects of risk and resilience factors. Evidence for the multifactorial causal basis of dyslexia is reviewed and potential factors that may offset this risk are considered. The implications of a cumulative risk and resilience model for early identification and intervention is discussed.
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