Types of dyslexia
| Site of pathology | ||
| Peripheral dyslexia | ||
| Alexia without agraphia | Disconnection syndrome | Left medial occipital lobe |
| Neglect dyslexia | Difficulty with left side of words or page | Right hemisphere |
| Central dyslexia | ||
| Surface dyslexia | Loss of semantic knowledge Difficulty with irregular words | Left temporal lobe |
| Deep dyslexia | Only able to read via meaning, not by letter-by-letter. Unable to read non-words (e.g. CHOG, LAVE) | Left hemisphere |