Video: Diagnosing Dyslexia in English Language Learners (Understood)

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English language learners (ELLs) represent one of the fastest-growing population segments in the United States. Yet many of the challenges these kids have while learning English – reading struggles, difficulty associating letters to sounds, and lags in rapid naming of objects – are also signs of dyslexia. This makes diagnosing dyslexia in non-native speakers especially difficult.

Hear from Fumiko Hoeft M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at UCSF, on the latest strategies experts are using to differentiate some of these challenges and more accurately diagnose dyslexia in non-native speakers.

Then learn more about the signs of dyslexia, as well as the added challenge of being an English language learner with dyslexia, at Understood.org.