I had raised two interconnected matters in a previous write-up in Current Sciencet. If intensive training in phonics does indeed improve the reading skills of dyslexics (as the experimental work Richards, et al. had shown), would there be lesser incidence of the condition in certain population groups in India since those literate in the major Indian scripts receive intensive phonic training anyway? In what manner can statistics be collected in India so that inter-cultural comparisons can be made with data available in the West? Possibilities of getting some answers may be forthcoming from recent, very interesting, developments in the investigation of dyslexia. The new lines of research have shown that dyslexia can, indeed, be recognized as a neurodevelopmental disorder with universal incidence but, because it can have variable and culture-specific manifestations, certain strategies for its mitigation can be effective.
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机译：在《 Current Sciencet》之前的一篇文章中，我提出了两个相互关联的问题。如果对语音的强化训练确实确实提高了阅读障碍的阅读能力（如理查兹等人的实验工作所示），那么在印度某些人口群体中，这种状况的发生率会更低，因为那些主要印度文字中有识字能力的人会收到强化语音训练吗？印度可以通过哪种方式收集统计数据，以便可以与西方国家的可用数据进行跨文化比较？在阅读障碍研究中，最近的非常有趣的发展可能会带来一些答案。新的研究表明，诵读困难症的确可以被认为是具有普遍发病率的神经发育障碍，但由于它具有可变的和特定于文化的表现，因此缓解其的某些策略可能是有效的。
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