Which of the following statements are correct ? (a) Dyslexia is a reading…

Concept: The Child Development and Pedagogy syllabus classifies certain learning difficulties as Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs), where each named disorder maps to ONE distinct academic-skill domain — Dyslexia to reading (word recognition, decoding, fluency), Dysgraphia to written expression (handwriting, spelling, organising ideas on paper), and Dyscalculia to numerical/mathematical processing. These names are not interchangeable: a learner can show a reading difficulty without any writing difficulty, and vice versa.

Application: Statement (a), ‘Dyslexia is a reading disorder,’ matches Dyslexia's defined domain, so it holds. Statement (b), ‘Dysgraphia is a writing disorder,’ matches Dysgraphia's defined domain, so it also holds. Statements (c) and (d) reverse these domains — (c) calls Dysgraphia a reading disorder and (d) calls Dyslexia a writing disorder — so both fail, since each swaps which disorder maps to which skill.

Cross-check — contrasting every option against the domain mapping:

• Only (a) is correct — incomplete: it drops the equally valid writing-disorder statement about Dysgraphia.

• Only (b) and (d) are correct — keeps the correct Dysgraphia statement but pairs it with a Dyslexia statement that wrongly reassigns writing to Dyslexia’s domain.

• Both (a) and (b) are correct — matches the standard domain mapping exactly: reading with Dyslexia, writing with Dysgraphia.

• Both (c) and (d) are correct — the mirror-image error: both domains are fully swapped.

Result: The statements that keep the domains straight — (a) and (b) — are the correct ones.