Is dyslexia a problem in China and Japan?

I have been asked to address this question. I can't. I don't read either Chinese or Japanese so cannot study the literature in those languages about native speakers and readers. read more

Alan's parents are English, but he was born and grew up in Japan. He would pass as a native speaker of either language. What brought Alan to the notice of Taeko Wydell, an expert on Japanese reading, and Brian Butterworth, was that he was severely dyslexic, but only in one language. In the other, he was probably in the top 10% of readers of his age. read more

They think dyslexia is the same for everyone, and affects “phonemic analysis”–the ability to convert letters into sounds, which the reader then assembles into syllables, words, sentences, etc. Alan’s problem presumably is that he’s lousy at phonemic analysis but OK at the skills needed to decode Japanese. read more