摘要：The following article explains the neuropsychological principles of developmental dyslexia exposing a historical evolution, its definitions and most common characteristics in individuals who develop this handicapping condition. Dyslexia is known as a disability that unables a person to develop reading abilities which affects an important percentage of the school population. This disability is mainly characterized by an impairment due to an inadequate language development that manifests itself in the inappropriate development of phonological awareness skills. After revising scientific literature for writing this article, neuropsychology has explained dyslexia, its symptoms, and the relation between brain and behavior for this, brain functioning, visual and auditoy perceptual impairments, and other factors associated to this disability such as genetics and heredity. At last, as a conclusion, it is expected that this article contributes to new research and thinking on more hypotheses about neuropsychology and developmental dyslexia.
