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Identifying dyslexia early---perhaps even in the first grade----can narrow or even close the gap between effort and achievement for early learners.

The learning disorder is marked with problems in locating speech sounds as well letters, numbers and words. There is no cure for the disorder, according to scienceworldreport.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Yale University explain that the best way to help a dyslexic child would be to locate the problem as early as possible.

When they looked at the longitudinal study of reading right from the first grade to the 12^th and after, the scientists found that dyslexic readers exhibited lower reading scores as compared to early first graders. Moreover, their "trajectories over time never converged with those of typical readers", according to the authors.

"If the persistent achievement gap between dyslexic and typical readers is to be narrowed, or even closed, reading interventions must be implemented early, when children are still developing the basic foundation for reading acquisition," said Emilio Ferrer, a UC Davis psychology professor, in a news release.

According to the researchers, "differences are not so much a function of increasing disparities over time", but only reflect marked differences in first grade typical as well as dyslexic readers.

What is important is to make the dyslexics go through important study level programs, so that the achievement gap is reduced, perhaps even closed, say researchers.

The study is published in The Journal of Pediatrics.