Causes for Poor Reading

WHAT  FACTORS  OR  CONDITIONS  CAN  CAUSE  POOR  READING?

1. Sensory handicap, such as blindness or deafness.
   
2. General inability to learn (low IQ).
   
3. Brain injury, concussions.
   
4. Dyslexia: defined as extreme difficulty in decoding (sounding out) words.
   
5. Poor motivation – related to excessive involvement with smartphones, social media devices, and/ or computer games.
   
6. Inadequate instruction in reading.
   
7. Improper instruction in reading.
   
8. Auditory imperception.
   
9. Visual imperception (visual discrimination, visual memory, etc.).
   
10. Functional vision disorder (eye movement, eye focusing, eye coordination).
    
11. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
    
12. A combination of the above.