Another reason for the reluctance of schools districts and teachers in acknowledging reading disability in students is their apprehension that it would reflect on their inadequate instructional methods. (Berninger 2000) It is, perhaps, for this reason too that Dyslexia is under-diagnosed
Nevertheless, a variety of observations over the years have led to the consensus that reading and spelling disabilities have genetic bases. (Raskind 2001) Several research studies have indicated that "the risk of reading impairment in first-degree relatives of a person with reading disability exceeds that in the general population
Because of this, some researchers claim that there may be a genetic basis for dyslexia, but this has not been conclusively proved as a large number of studies have also tried to establish the neurological basis for Dyslexia but so far conclusive proof has not been established. (Strydom & Plessis n
Fresh studies have shown that a person's ability to decode and understand a new word is dependent on his (or her) ability to break it down into phonemes and people who lack this ability due to deficient phonemic processing are Dyslexic. (Wegmann 2001) In other words, Dyslexic people have difficulty in breaking words into their various constituent sounds