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Dyslexia and What We Know About Dyslexic Minds

Do you have a dyslexic friend or child who experiences dyslexia? Do you want to hear more about recent research into what in the brain leads to dyslexia and what advantages dyslexia individuals might benefit from? Make sure to read more about it here! By Fernette Eide

Laura Lurns Last updated October 26, 2016 · 1 min read

Dyslexia is more than jumbling up letters and numbers. Often people who suffer from dyslexia have a hard time recalling what recently happened, or hear sounds differently, or even see letters falling off of a page. However dyslexia is openness to an abstract form of thinking.

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Storytelling can be strength of people who struggle with dyslexia. Dyslexia can be more than a deficient, but an advantage. In areas such as material reasoning – spatial reasoning; being able to visualize from varying perspectives. People who have dyslexia have patterns of challenges, but also patterns of strength. There appears to be a structural trade off in the brain neurons of people who have dyslexia.

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Alan Alda talks in the first of a series of videos on recent advances in our understanding of dyslexia and the brain.
The video addresses new findings involving the strengths and weaknesses associated with dyslexia.
Alda is famous for his acting career as well as various scientific endeavors.

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