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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no official criteria or cut-offs to classify dyslexia by severity. As a psychologist, I wouldn't indicate mild/moderate/severe in the diagnosis, I would just say specific learning disability in reading/dyslexia.

I would descriptively use mild or severe labels to indicate the functional impact on academics. A high schooler struggling to decode early elementary level words - severe. A fourth grader with decoding/fluency at third or second grade level - mild.[/quote]

It probably doesn’t matter in practice, but that high schooler may have less-severe phonological deficits but may have never gotten any remediation, whereas the fourth grader could have severe phonological deficits but have received really good phonological training in K and 1st. The severity of the causal deficit may not be the same as the eventual impact on reading, in other words.[/quote]

I agree! Severity specifiers are most often based on functional impact of the disability rather than underlying deficits. Severe would be a severe impact on functioning, regardless of the contributions of underlying cognitive processes and access to intervention. However, the most severe processing deficits are also the most resistant to intervention, and students with  milder processing deficits respond more quickly and strongly to intervention.[/quote]

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