Terminology
For those new to dyslexia, making sense of the vocabulary used by physicians, educators, and researchers can seem daunting. This list of commonly used terms is offered as a reference to enhance understanding about the academic, scientific, and legal words you will likely encounter.

- 504 Plan
- Accommodations
- Alphabetic Principle
- Assessment
- Assistive Technology
- Automaticity
- Comprehension (Reading)
- Decoding
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia (International Dyslexia Association)
- Dyslexia (National Institutes of Health/NIH)
- Dyspraxia
- Encoding
- Evaluation
- Executive Function
- Fluency
- Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
- Grapheme
- Graphophonemic Knowledge
- Individualized Education Program (IEP)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Intervention
- Kinesthetic
- Learning Disability
- Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
- Metacognition
- Morpheme
- Morphology
- Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
- Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) Instruction
- Orthography
- Orton-Gillingham Approach
- Phoneme
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonology
- Response to Intervention (RtI)
- Screening
- Semantics
- Specific Learning Disability (SLD)
- Syntax