"Several of my uncles and aunts had tried to teach me to read, and because they could not, and because I was much older than children who read easily, had come to think, as I have learnt since, that I had not all my faculties."- William Butler Yeats

Who would have guessed that William Butler Yeats would grow up to be on the foremost poets and writers of the 20th…

Hello all,

My name is Doug Walker, I am a science teacher at the Landmark School in Prides Crossing Massachusetts.  I have been a teacher here for 27 years now, and have observed, learned and thought about dyslexia. My brother is dyslexic, I am an undiagnosed ( no official tests) Dyslexic. I teach students with Dyslexia.

I teach High School level science - Anatomy and Physiology, Physical Science and what in most schools would be titled Pre-engineering.

Over the years, I…

The book made me laugh out loud many times - it describes my son and I. I am a geological engineer - I make money for my  shareholders and me, finding new mines with a 3D (Material),  viewed in time, next to current mines (Interconnected) views and telling the story to investors (Narrative) and then managing a business around that (Dynamic).

The booked helped me to see the great potential of my son (12). One thing that did not pop out of the book was where music sits. John Lennon was…

I wanted to introduce myself. I live in Texas and have two wonderful children. My daughter is 19 and one of the most beautiful souls I have the privilege of knowing. She has cerebral palsy and mental retardation. She wakes up with a smile every morning and it never leaves her face till she falls asleep. I wish, all the time, I could be more like her.

My son is 12 years old and he is my little piece of heaven on earth. He is extremely bright. He learned how to walk, talk and make me…

Hi.  I'm very new to this.  Not as confident as i want to be when it comes to meeting people.  i became a member last August and typically i have done nothing more.  I do that type of thing often.  Not so good at helping myself to ask for some of the support that is out there.  hello support!  I'm hoping to get to know a few people via Dyslexic Advantage and perhaps make a few new friends along the way. 

Can someone please help me?

I have an amazing son (8 years old) who is verbally advanced and excels in mathematical concepts. In first grade, he was unable to read all sight words and could spell few sight words. We enrolled him in Sylvan. After six months of reading/spelling intervention at Sylvan and at home, we had him performing above grade level in reading comprehension. However, his spelling was still odd- although at grade level (even after hours of continued spelling work…

genuinley looking to see if someone can help me discover my dyslexic advantage. 

Hi, I am new in the blog.  I am reading the book The Dyslexic Advantage because I have a feeling that my daughter Ellen Rose (7 years old) might have dyslexia.  I am not sure yet.  I am not sure if she has dyslexia or just a cultural disadvantage because our first language at home is Spanish.  She is in 1st. grade and she is behind the reading level.  Definitely, she doesn't like to do her homework because she says that it is very difficult for her to understand the words.  They have weekly…

Dyslexia Font to help dyslexics read and write

"I had carefully masked the fact that I was moderately dyslexic, did not think in a linear fashion and could neither spell nor write simple sentences grammatically. I had several assistants throughout my working career whose job it was to write my letters and who were always chosen, in part, for their ability to…

An award-winning screenwriter who has taught at Pixar, Disney, and Industrial Light & Magic, Brian McDonald exemplifies the dyslexic strengths with storytelling. 

In …

Are you interested in participating in research about DYSLEXIA?



Language researchers at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center are looking for:

• People who ONLY HAVE dyslexia

• People who HAVE dyslexia as well as another learning disability or multiple learning disabilities (ADD/ADHD, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, etc.)

• People who DO NOT have…

I am new to this site. I have just read the Dyslexic Advantage.   As has my son.   He was diagnosed at age 6 - he is now 48.   He is in Medical School, his second career.   He has a Masters Degree in Chem. Eng.  and worked in that field for 20 years.   Med  School has been brutal!  We are just putting together that fact that he is still dyslexic - after reading The Dyslexic Advantage.   He is grossly mis-understood by school instructors and is having to repeat two years, even though he…

There is a learning style that seems unmistakable in some - and it seems to involve learning from exceptions. These may be children who from a very young age seem to question rules and challenge assumptions. They're kids who if you try to tell them what to think, they may quickly answer, "Actually..."



This learning preference often goes hand-in-hand with novelty and inductive learning because discovering an exception means that you might have to rethink your rules and shuffle your…

I have a 10yo who is full of ideas and story lines but has the hardest time just getting those ideas down on paper. I would like to know of some of the reading and writing programs that are out there to help dyslexic kids. The teacher has been allowing him to use PhotoBooth on the Mac at school to get his ideas down for his journals and it seems to be working for him. He says it`s easier that way.

I know there are alot of programs out there but I just wanted to hear from you what kind…

I never did read the main story, but when back to to illustrations many times. I still have my original copy. Then Classics Illustrated, Mad magazine, Donald Duck adventures (amazingly there was a special high quality series on archeology) and later science fiction. The real classics came in high school and, although I read very slowly, I began to realize I was getting more out of the stories than my classmates. Sound familiar? 

"...Scorsese says that his was not a home where there were books, and as a child he was mildly dyslexic..."

Martin Scorsese is a 'legendary film director' who takes on the very visual book…

There are several great options for Ebook readers and the technology is helpful for children and adults alike with dyslexia. The following is a Excerpt from a review at WSJ.com:

On the…

"I'm highly dyslexic and find reading and writing difficult. So I went through my school years being told I'm stupid. And the first creature that didn't call me stupid was a horse." - Richard Maxwell, horse trainer, author of many books including Train Your Young Horse and Maximize Your…