About Dyslexia

FACTS ABOUT DYSLEXIA

• Dyslexia is a specific language disability in which a person has problems in reading because they cannot learn and remember whole words by sight. While dyslexia is seen more often in males, it occurs in both sexes. It is not "outgrown" and affects people throughout the life cycle.
  
  
• An individual with dyslexia cannot manage their words. Often they transpose letters such as b for d or cannot recall the words they want to say.
  
  
• They often have difficulty in spelling and in mathematics as well. Their handwriting can be slow, cramped, and hard to understand.
  
  
• Since dyslexia is not confined to academics, an individual can find organizing and managing their life difficult and often may be unclear in their sense of direction and of organization.
  
  
• Very often a person with dyslexia is a gifted, creative, productive individual. Many famous people have dyslexia.  It has been said that Albert Einstein was dyslexic.
  
  
• A person with dyslexia or a language-based learning difference can be helped by the Orton-Gillingham approach to the teaching of reading. This is a phonetic, multi-sensory approach which is sequential and cumulative. Although it is never too late to provide remediation, the earlier the better.
  
  
• Dyslexia Tutoring Program, formerly Maryland Associates for Dyslexic Adults and Youth, Inc. (MADAY) is a 501 (c) (3) private non-profit agency committed to identifying individuals with dyslexia or a language-based learning difference and to providing remedial tutoring and allied services to them.