"People with dyslexia have trouble with some combination of the following: reading, writing, spelling, handwriting, speaking, listening, and memory". "[...] for the most part, people diagnosed with dyslexia have difficulty processing the sounds of words compared with good readers".
"We expect everyone to read in our culture [...], but reading is only five thousand years old." There are other ways of learning, of communicating, of knowing, some of them supported by superior visual-perception or visual-motor skills". [...] "Because dyslexics have greater visual-spatial abilities than 'normal', using pictures and visualization can be a better way to take in and express information than words".
Individuals with Dyslexia benefit from a learning and working environment where they can use their strong visual-spatial skills and holistic perception, which can turn into careers related to entrepreneurship, for example.
Source: Armstrong, Thomas. Neurodiversity Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences. First Da Capo Press edition. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Lifelong, 2010.
