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Dyslexia Research: Can Dyslexia Be Diagnosed in Younger Children?
One major concern many parents have is that they can’t get their child a formal diagnosis for dyslexia until their child is in the third grade. Many parents start to see their child struggling with reading long before this, but …
50 Interesting Facts About Dyslexia
What is Dyslexia? Dyslexia is a learning disability that includes difficulty in the use and processing of linguistic and symbolic codes, alphabetic letters representing speech sounds or numeric representing numbers or quantities. The first description of dyslexia appeared in 1896 by Dr. …
Dyslexia & Reading Difficulties Independent of Other Cognitive Abilities
When you were (or still are) in school was there ever a concept that seemed impossible to grasp? Regardless of the effort you exerted it never seemed to come together for you. This is the case for the 10% of …
How Can Someone with Dyslexia Learn to Read?
“Dyslexia is not a disease to have and to be cured of, but a way of thinking and learning. Often it’s a gifted mind waiting to be found and taught.” – Girard Sagmiller, Dyslexia My Life The dyslexic mind is …
What Does Dyslexia Affect Outside of Reading?
Here is our Dyslexia Specialist, Shantell Berrett, discussing how dyslexia affects children outside of the area of reading: To learn more about dyslexia, watch our free dyslexia webinar: “Dyslexia: From Symptoms to Solutions.” Sign up to watch the free dyslexia …
How Can You Tell if Your Child Has Dyslexia?
Here is Reading Horizons Dyslexia Specialist, Shantell Berrett, discussing the signs and symptoms to look for if you are worried that your child or loved one may have dyslexia: To learn more about dyslexia, watch our free dyslexia webinar: “Dyslexia: …
Prevelance of Dyslexia: One Billion Dyslexics Worldwide
Dyslexics have many gifts. They undoubtedly have difficulties with language; however they also have many skills that are valuable to society. They are intelligent, creative, empathetic, and talented problem solvers. As the title of one of the articles yesterday revealed, …
18 POSITIVE Dyslexia Symptoms
To affirm that there are several positive symptoms to those with dyslexia, here is a list of 18 of the positive symptoms of dyslexia: Curiosity Strong imagination Easily grasp new concepts Surprising maturity Enjoy solving puzzles Talent at building models …
