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Dyslexia **Description: ** Dyslexia is an impairment in the brain’s ability to translate written images received from the eyes into meaningful language. It jumbles up images, making normal activities like reading and writing very difficult.

**Inheritance: ** Dyslexia is inherited from parent to child, when it is a developmental type.

**Symptoms: ** Symptoms of dyslexia include directional confusion, sequencing difficulties, and difficulties on little words. Bizarre reading, spelling, and handwriting are also common. Dyslexia patients also experience late talking, immature speech, and difficulties with math,

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**Diagnosis: ** Dyslexia is diagnosed by taking a dyslexia test, which must be taken in order to find out if you are dyslexic, and the level of your condition.

**Treatment: ** Although there is no cure for dyslexia, extra learning assistance and private, individual tutoring may help.

**Research: ** Many institutes, like the National Institute of Neurological Disorders of Stroke, (NINDS), are focusing on developing techniques to diagnose and treat dyslexia.

**Additional Facts: ** Dyslexia is the most common cause of reading, writing, and spelling difficulties. Along with that, 70-80% of people with poor reading skills are likely dyslexic, which is 20% of our whole population. There are also many children with dyslexia, the same percentage in both boys and girls, of which less than 1/3 receive the school services they need.

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**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">﻿ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Resources: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[|www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/dyslexia] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[|www.ehow.com/video_4989694_dyslexia-inhereted.html] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[|www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/dyslexia] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[|www.learning-inside-out.com/dyslexia-statistics.html] __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">www.audiblox2000.com/dyslexia/ __