Anything that involves the brain is complicated, and dyslexia is no different. But we’re going to try to answer some of the big questions about dyslexia: What went wrong? Why me? How can I fix it? We’ll look at what dyslexia is, and what it isn’t. We’ll talk about how the wiring of a dyslexic’sContinue reading “What We’re Going to Talk About”
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What Happens in Our Brains As We Learn to Read
Reading is an essential skill, required for almost anything we do. For most of us, it’s an almost magical transformation – learning the letters, sounding out the words, putting them together with ideas … and then … the wonderful moment we find ourself pulled completely into a book. We’re reading fluently!
But not everybody learns to read easily. Some people struggle to recognize new words long after their friends have moved on to more advanced books. These people may be dyslexic.
Dyslexia Owners Manual 