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www.painfreeidaho.com Dyslexia is the most common cause of reading, writing and spelling difficulties. Of people with poor reading skills, 70-80% are likely dyslexic. One in five students, or 15-20% of the population, has a language based learning disability. Dyslexia is probably the most common of the language based learning disabilities. Nearly the same percentage of males and females have dyslexia. Nearly the same percentage of people from different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds have dyslexia (see general dyslexia symptoms). Percentages of children at risk for reading failure are much higher in high poverty, language-minority populations who attend ineffective schools. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)* found that approximately 38% of fourth grade students have "below basic" reading skills. These students are below the 40th percentile (performing below the other 60% of their peers) and are at greater than 50% chance of failing the high-stakes, year-end school achievement tests. About three quarters of the children who show primary difficulties with basic reading skill early in reading development can be helped to overcome those difficulties to a large extent. Not all of these children have dyslexia (see symptoms of dyslexia in children). Less than 1 of the children with reading disabilities are receiving school services for their reading disability. The causes for reading difficulty may be neurobiological (caused by differences in the ...