Evidence record

NHS. Dyslexia in children.

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Source record

Source kind: authoritative guidance
Evidence model: Accepted legacy v0.1 embedded source
Accessed: 2026-08-12
Oracle last reviewed: 2026-08-12

Open source

Claims this source bears on

Dyslexic word-level literacy difficulties occur across a range of cognitive profiles, so general intelligence should not be used as a simple test of whether someone can be dyslexic.

Claim reference: dyslexia#dyslexia-claim-intelligence · Confidence: high · Evidence role: Legacy source route — no v0.2 contribution role inferred

Evidence limitations

None recorded.

Claim uncertainty

Which assessment approaches most reliably distinguish dyslexia from other causes of reading difficulty without relying on unsupported IQ-discrepancy rules?

Funding and conflicts

None recorded.

Evidence projection provenance

Evidence synthesis accepted by the owner on 2026-08-12 and promoted from frozen Batch A candidate blob 6609a1a100919003b541e22559f51031ca202031; candidate history remains preserved.

Public projection ID: legacy-dyslexia-dyslexia-source-nhs-children