Dysorthography

Dysorthography is a disorder of spelling which accompanies dyslexia by a direct consequence of the phonological disorder. In the American classification from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the classification from the World Health Organization (WHO), it is a subtype of specific learning disorder with impairment in written expression.

A related term, dysgraphia, is a disorder of writing ability.

See also

• Neurolinguistics
• Orthography
• Dyslexia