VIDBE-Q Volume 67 Issue 3
Amie Davenport,
amie.davenport@region10.org
Kelly Bevis,
kelly.bevis@region10.org
Region 10, Education Service Center
Target Audience: Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TSVI), Reading
Specialists, Educational Diagnosticians, Licensed Specialists in School Psychology
(LSSP)
What is reading? And how does the brain do it? If you look up the term in
the dictionary, you learn that reading is the ability to "look at and comprehend the
meaning of written or printed matter by mentally interpreting the characters or
symbols of which it is composed (Lexico Dictionaries, 2022)." Before discussing
dyslexia, we need to understand what efficient reading looks like and how it
develops in typical learners. Skilled reading is twofold, decoding text which is
figuring out words through phonemic awareness and phonics, and comprehension
Dyslexia and Visual Impairments
