Students with this difficulty may have perfectly good sight but have difficulty in recognising the whole word and its meaning in print. They may also experience visual distraction and lose their place or miss out words. Their overall comprehension is frequently poor. They often mis-sequence letters. A directional problem.
Dyslexic students continue to confuse left and right.
They sometimes transpose numbers or the time when reading a 24 hour clock. A weakness of short-term memory. It therefore takes longer for dyslexic students to encode information for effective storage and retrieval into the long term memory. The problem with retrieval of this information is not stupidity or lack of cognitive skills but is usually caused by slower processing skills due to a problem with coding either the visual or phonological aspects of language or both. A difficulty in motor integration.