Dyslexia as a variant of language difficulties in teaching younger schoolchildren is traditionally one of the urgent problems of modern speech therapy, which has undoubted theoretical and practical significance. In the last 10-15 years, there has been an increase in scientific interest in the problem of dyslexia all over the world, which is associated not only with an increase in the prevalence of the disorder and the need to clarify its pathogenesis. Public awareness of the importance of learning in the modern world, the need to assess the impact of dyslexia on a person's personal development and to find ways to fully integrate children with dyslexia into the cultural and educational environment. A dyslexic child constantly faces difficulties when reading: one incorrectly read word in itself destroys the overall picture of what he has read, that is, the text remains completely incomprehensible to the child.

The article provides an overview of the concept of dyslexia and provides information on the prevalence. The article considers reading disorders occurring in primary school students with the Kazakh language of instruction.