Dyslexia
According to the British Dyslexia Association, dyslexia is an umbrella term covering a range of learning related problems. Dyslexia affects more than 16%+ of the population and four times as many males suffer from the condition as females.
Dyslexia has nothing to do with intelligence - except that, by definition, almost all dyslexics are much more intelligent than can be predicted by their reading ability. Indeed, some of our most famous are or were dyslexic - Albert Einstein, Richard Branson, Sir Winston Churchill, Toya Wilcox, Susan Hampshire, AA Gill and Anthea Turner, Tom Cruise to name but a few.
Do you, or someone you know, experience:
- Academic skills disorder (ASD™)
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia (lack of co-ordination; clumsiness)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Or other related learning difficulties.
...signs include - but are not limited to - individuals who:
Are intelligent but have not reached their full potential at school
- Avoid reading, writing or mathematics
- Have difficulty in concentrating
- Have difficulty in following texts - i.e. skipping lines and words
- Have difficulty in copying correctly
- Have been diagnosed with myopia, astigmatism or strabismus, up to 0.75 - yet have experienced little or no improvement in academic studies
- Have a reputation for being lazy, problematical or immature learners
- Have little sense of orientation and poor concept of time and space
Alastair Wade Optometrists have a number of treatment options for those with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties. Please register and log in to see if we can help you.
