Abstract
The article presents the results of the survey about specific reading and writing difficulties, which was conducted in the group of 25 students of the first year of postgraduate studies in general logopedics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. The aim of the survey was to establish the level of knowledge about developmental dyslexia possessed by prospective speech therapists and their awareness of the problems facing children and adults suffering from dyslexia as well as of the needs of children with the risk of dyslexia.