Since its discovery in the 1890s, dyslexia has been described as a disorder of reading and writing. Its founder, W. Pringle Morgan, called it a “congenital defect.” But what if the disorder label ...

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 ...

Could dysmusia be to reading music what dyslexia is to reading text, and dyscalculia is to math? Sheet music via www.shutterstock.com. Music education in the western world often emphasizes musical ...

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 ...

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 ...

The paragraph in the top panel depicts whole-word errors, ie, neglect of whole words on the left side. In the bottom panel are examples of within-word errors or unilateral paralexias, ie, where a ...

Families with children who have dyslexia have long pushed lawmakers to respond to a pressing concern: Too many young students struggle for years to learn to read, before schools recognize the problem.