JUST THE FACTS
- 1 in 5 people suffer from dyslexia, that is 20% of the population, are dyslexic.
- According to NIH (National Institute of Health) research, of those who are placed in special education for a learning disability, around 80% of those have dyslexia.
- Dyslexia is hereditary and commonly runs in families.
- Children don’t outgrow dyslexia. They will have it for life.
- Dyslexia is not related to low intelligence.
- A study at Yale found that the number of girls and boys who have dyslexia are about the same.
- Any child can receive classroom accommodations with a 504 plan if a dyslexic diagnostic report is given to their public school.
- Most teachers do not understand dyslexia. Courses on dyslexia are not required for teacher credentials.
- Dyslexia does not reflect an overall defect in language, but a localized weakness within the phonologic module of the brain (where sounds of language are put together to form words or break words down into sounds.
- Dyslexia ranges from mild, to moderate, to severe, to profound.
- Around 40% of people with dyslexia also have ADHD. And those with dyslexia use about 5 times more energy to complete mental tasks.
- Dyslexics do not “see” words backwards. The “b-d” letter reversal for example is mainly caused by deficits in interpreting left to right.
- Dyslexics have excellent comprehension of the stories read or told to them.
- Dyslexics have excellent thinking skills in the areas of conceptualization, reason,
imagination, and abstraction.
- Some of the most brilliant minds of our time have been known to have dyslexia: Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and John Lennon, to mention only a few.
- The use of an Orton-Gillingham method, such as the Barton Reading & Spelling System, can significantly compensate for the language learning and processing problems that arise from dyslexia or reading difficulties .
- Dyslexia can be remediated, meaning you can retrain your brain to read correctly no matter how old you are. The longer a child waits to get help, the longer it takes to catch up. DO NOT WAIT! No diagnosis is necessary to participate in this program. We now offer remote tutoring!
- According to NIH (National Institute of Health) research, of those who are placed in special education for a learning disability, around 80% of those have dyslexia.
- Dyslexia is hereditary and commonly runs in families.
- Children don’t outgrow dyslexia. They will have it for life.
- Dyslexia is not related to low intelligence.
- A study at Yale found that the number of girls and boys who have dyslexia are about the same.
- Any child can receive classroom accommodations with a 504 plan if a dyslexic diagnostic report is given to their public school.
- Most teachers do not understand dyslexia. Courses on dyslexia are not required for teacher credentials.
- Dyslexia does not reflect an overall defect in language, but a localized weakness within the phonologic module of the brain (where sounds of language are put together to form words or break words down into sounds.
- Dyslexia ranges from mild, to moderate, to severe, to profound.
- Around 40% of people with dyslexia also have ADHD. And those with dyslexia use about 5 times more energy to complete mental tasks.
- Dyslexics do not “see” words backwards. The “b-d” letter reversal for example is mainly caused by deficits in interpreting left to right.
- Dyslexics have excellent comprehension of the stories read or told to them.
- Dyslexics have excellent thinking skills in the areas of conceptualization, reason,
imagination, and abstraction.
- Some of the most brilliant minds of our time have been known to have dyslexia: Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and John Lennon, to mention only a few.
- The use of an Orton-Gillingham method, such as the Barton Reading & Spelling System, can significantly compensate for the language learning and processing problems that arise from dyslexia or reading difficulties .
- Dyslexia can be remediated, meaning you can retrain your brain to read correctly no matter how old you are. The longer a child waits to get help, the longer it takes to catch up. DO NOT WAIT! No diagnosis is necessary to participate in this program. We now offer remote tutoring!