Are you worried that your child suffers from dyslexia? Reading Rockets offers a good, detailed description that may help. The article is long but is organized in such a way that you can pick out pertinent paragraphs that interest you. It begins with the basics: boys and girls are equally identified with dyslexia, reversals of letters is very common and not a sign of dyslexia, etc. But it quickly moves into the neurological basis of the learning difficulty.
