Normally dyslexia is considered a handicap: a mental deficiency that makes reading, long-division and remembering whether letters and numbers face left or right difficult. Challenging this view, ...

“If you have dyslexia, you have a superpower,” says Gaby Edwards, a speech language pathologist at The Odyssey School just outside Baltimore. “Because in order to be diagnosed with dyslexia, your ...

Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty in which genes often play a role. How do genes associated with dyslexia relate to brain structure in the general population? In a large-scale study published ...

Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty in which genes often play a role. How do genes associated with dyslexia relate to brain structure in the general population? In a large-scale study, a team of ...

The parents of the advocacy group Decoding Dyslexia Wisconsin pressed for years to see this 11-word definition enshrined in state law: “Dyslexia means a specific learning disability that is ...

Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional reactivity than children without dyslexia, according to a new collaborative study by UC San Francisco neuroscientists with the UCSF Dyslexia ...

One complicating factor is that the word 'dyslexia' is used to describe a number of unrelated conditions with similar symptoms. It was discovered a few years ago that one cause of dyslexia is a ...

Kelly Pierce has a beautiful mind shaped by dyslexia, yet she endured decades of challenges and experienced the hurtful stigma of dyslexia into adulthood. I first diagnosed Kelly’s severe spelling ...

Focusing on what dyslexia means to each of us as an individual, learn how creative writing can help us to understand ourselves and the benefits of expressing our thoughts and feelings through writing ...

Unlike oral language, which is learned naturally from infancy, reading is a skill that is acquired at an older age, through instruction and with effort. The numerous and complex processes that are ...