11. About 6 percent to 10 percent of the population suffers from the reading disability . 12. An expert on reading disabilities , Isabelle Liberman died in 1990. 13. People with reading disabilities have great difficulty breaking words into their most basic units, phonemes. 14. Early identification of children at risk for reading disabilities . 15. The vast majority of children with learning disabilities have reading disabilities as their major deficiency. 16. In that capacity, she served as the director of a research unit in reading disabilities . 17. Phonological recoding ability in young children with reading disabilities . 18. Deficient orthography-to-meaning mapping can lead to reading disability . 19. It may be possible to prevent thousands of children from ever experiencing learning and reading disabilities . 20. He was studying for his doctoral degree in special education with an emphasis in reading disabilities .