Dyslexia is my superpower! The notion that dyslexia imparts cognitive strengths is a pillar for a movement celebrating dyslexia’s advantages and asserting that the brains of people with dyslexia are different, not defective.
Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder that affects approximately 15%- 20% of the population. Those with literacy difficulties, specifically dyslexia, have difficulty with decoding and encoding language. Dyslexia is not a reflection of lack of intelligence, but rather an underlying reason as to why a person struggles in processing written and/or spoken language. There are a variety of interventions that are available to aid school-aged children with dyslexia.
There are three different types of dyslexia:
Dyseidetic Dyslexia (Surface Dyslexia) which is identified by poor sight-word recognition.
Dysphonetic Dyslexia (Language Dyslexia) dysphonetic dyslexia the reader is reliant on sight recognition to read but is unable to sound out unknown words.
Dysphoneidetic Dyslexia (Global Dyslexia) which is identified by deficits in both the language processing center of the brain as well as executive cognitive functioning outside of the language processing center of the brain.