What is dyslexia?

Description and definitions
Scientific background

 

‘Dyslexic learners have many talents that just don’t happen to include reading and writing.’


Professor John Stein, Professor of Neurophysiology
University of Oxford, UK


‘Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation: but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.’


Dr Samuel Johnson, 1743