Dyslexia is a neurologically based learning disability which often runs in families, and interferes with the processing of language. Dyslexia symptoms can include difficulty with processing words, writing, spelling, handwriting, and sometimes math. Dyslexia often results in reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge. Dyslexia is not a function of intelligence or smarts, its a condition of how the brain is wired that requires a different set of tools outside of what is normally taught in our schools that provides the dyslexic with the knowledge and skill to read, write and comprehend fluently.

“Learning Disability” – a disorder in one or more of the basic processes involved in understanding spoken or written language. A learning disability is not a reflection of low intelligence. Dyslexia is a specific type of learning disability.

Dyslexia is an inherited condition (genetic that passes through generations) with 1 in 5 people having dyslexia at some level, from mild to severe. Some people with dyslexia also have ADD/ADHD. Dyslexia is also a medical disability, as defined, and as a result there has been a limited attention to modifying the traditional learning techniques to accommodate a dyslexic child during the early years of education in the public school system This lack of change has fostered a group, of now adults, that have never been given the opportunity to be exposed to the proper techniques of learning in order for them to have succeeded in their education, and in some cases in life in general.