Does dyslexia exist in East Asian languages?

Yes. If you use your eyes to read, or use your fingers to feel something dyslexia can affect it easily. It can even affect people who read braille and can affect some people's listening abilities. Of course all forms of writing except like.. read more

Obviously for languages that use latin alphabets in East Asia, dyslexia would also affect those readers. I think the thing that is the hardest for dyslexic people to learn is the IPA and other phonetic transcriptions. read more

Dyslexia would not present in one language and not in another, typically, and the fact that you observe a problem with several students could suggest it is not dyslexia, until the students are tested by an expert. read more

Reported prevalence of dyslexia is much higher in English (about 5-6%) than Chinese. I surveyed 8,000 schoolchildren in the Beijing region, with Yin Wengang of the Chinese Academy of Science, and found that about 1.5% were dyslexic. read more