Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a learning disability, or learning difference, that makes it hard for people to learn to read and write. (Follow the link for more discussion of the definition of dyslexia.)
It is a lifelong condition, and cannot be "cured" any more than having brown eyes can be cured. But dyslexics can learn to read and write well enough to meet demanding job, academic, and general social requirements if they get the right kind of teaching. A recent research report (Fink, 1998) named sixty successful dyslexic men and women. That list includes physicians, professors at major universities, and a winner of the Nobel prize.
If you want to know more about dyslexia, I suggest that you look at
some of these
books
or
web sites.
Or click
here
to get a dyslexic's perspective.
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Everything on this web site is the personal opinion of S. W. Davison. Any of it might be incorrect or out-of-date.