What is Dyslexia?
Cover the bottom of this page and see if you can read this paper. This is what some dyslexics see when they read. Then check the reading at the bottom and
see how you’ve done….
ether sa ebo ittleg how es s.The eals
Onc ewa littl yandal irlw ereb tfriend ywer
obrothe dsiste ywer muc etha yappeare win
ran r.The eso halik tthe dtobet s.
einterestingt gwa ywere oyear t.
Ye t,th hin sthe tw sapar
Once there was a little boy and a little girl who were best friends. They were also brother and sister. They were so much alike that they appeared to be twins. Yet the interesting thing was they were two years apart.
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Symptoms of Dyslexia Multiple Intelligence Tests have shown us that using both sides of the brain has been great for most students. But for dyslectic students, the right side is wrong! Dyslexics read from the right side of the brain while good readers use the left side of the brain.
Characteristics of a dyslectic reading (not routinely made by students who are slow, uninterested in reading, emotionally disturbed, or undereducated:
- Difficulty with sound-symbol matching
- Disregard of punctuation
- Omission of letters or word
- Inappropriate insertion of words
- Poor letter-sequencing abilities in spelling and reading
- Confusion of b and d
- Confusion of similar looking words, such as form and from
- Miscalling words by using non-phonemic synonyms: ripped for torn, house for home, dad for father
- Omitting or miscalling syntactical endings, such as -ed or -s.
In addition, the non-reader will also exhibit at least some of these non-reading problems:
- Left-right confusion
- Difficulty remembering a group of unrelated facts, such as multiplication table
- Difficulty remembering ordered lists, such as the days of the week and the months of the year
- Impaired auditory sequential memory (following directions or repeating a long sentence) in the presence of normal visual sequential memory
- Difficulty understanding grammar or syntax, contributing to poor comprehension
• Abnormal distractibility, “twitchiness,” and hyperactivity
- Visual problems associated with motor control of the eyes: lack of smooth tracking and convergence, trouble focusing binoculars, poor stereopsis at the midline, and excessive eye fatigue and watering during reading
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Millions of otherwise bright children struggle with words, but recent brain research shows there's hope—if parents and teachers know what to look for
By Barbara Kantrowitz and Anne Underwood
Newsweek, November 22, 1999
The first thing Kathryn Nicholas will tell you about her 11-year-old son Jason is that he's a bright, curious kid who can build elaborate machines out of Legos and remember the code names and payloads of bombers. "He has a phenomenal desire to see how things work," she says proudly. 
Considered most responsible for the electrification of America, Charles Steinmetz was paid with blank checks by General Electric
Charles P. Steinmetz placed high priority on helping his fellow man, and this led him during his student days to embrace socialism, which was the rage among students. The movement was supported in part by the teachers, but opposed by Bismark's police.
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