[JMKH42]

The article is strange, as it starts with "we used to think it was just that smart kids read well, but this new study etc etc"

But the details of the new study seem to support exactly that original idea.

Perhaps a little more detail on why and what kinds of smart, but it was a pretty broad set of mental skills that mattered

[tuukkah]

"We used to think dyslexia was related to IQ but it's largely orthogonal." More specifically, dyslexia is not a generic learning disability, it's a highly specific one (and mostly preventable).