APA Dictionary of Psychology

in DSM–IV–TR, a learning disorder that is characterized by a level of reading ability substantially below that expected for a child of a given age, intellectual ability, and educational experience. The reading difficulty—which involves faulty oral reading, slow oral and silent reading, and often reduced comprehension—interferes with achievement or everyday life and is not attributable to neurological impairment, sensory impairment, intellectual developmental disorder, or environmental deprivation. In DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR, the disorder was subsumed within specific learning disorder and is no longer considered a distinct entity. Also called developmental reading disorder.