byslexia or dyslexia?

definition | types | development

What is dyslexia? Well, for one thing people with dyslexia are not poor readers, less intelligent, or even diseased. They also do not necessarily see words backwards. This term was derived from Greek, dys (poor) and lexis (word or language). A learning disability is a type of disorder that deters a person's ability to learn. Dyslexia is a specific type of a learning disability because it is a specific learning problem in a certain subject(s), including reading, writing, or speech. People with dyslexia confuse letters or words, read or write words or sentences in the wrong order, and their memory is overloaded easily. This occurs to all groups no matter what age or race. But people with dyslexia also tend to use more parts of their brain than a person without dyslexia. They are gifted and quite productive and there are many types of dyslexia. Though these people may be dyslexic; they are people with average or even above intelligence. (See list of famous people.)