I'm commenting on your March 19th post "The opposite of dyslexia." I had always thought that dyslexia primarily had to do with seeing letters incorrectly because of their orientation (for all the non-letter physical objects that we look at, p and d, for instance, would be the same because you can rotate one to create the other). But when I looked it up, dyslexia is defined as any reading difficulty with normal intelligence. So based on that definition, having initial difficulty in learning to read would be categorized as dyslexia. In any case, I don't think it's specific to the ability or lack thereof to use whole-word reading.