What is dyslexia?  Whether you spell it dyslexia, dislexia or deslexia - it's all the same.

With over 10% of the world population being dyslexic, it's not a small thing.  This site was created by those with dyslexia who are trying to learn more, improve their lives and realize the great potential they were born with.  Dyslexia, as some as said, is a gift - but only if you look at it that way.   We offer resources, tools and scholarships all designed to help you realize your potential and answer the questions - what is dyslexia and how can I use it?

Successful people with learning disabilities and dyslexia:

Scholarship for Dyslexic Students

We are offering a $200 scholarship for students with learning disabilities and/or dyslexia and have demonstrated outstanding leadership in high school.  For more information on how to apply, please go to scholarships for students with dyslexia.

Are you dyslexic?

If one or more of the following symptoms are evident, dyslexia and/or its determining inner-ear dysfunction may be present:

 Reading

• Memory instability for letters, words, or numbers
• A tendency to skip over or scramble letters, words, and sentences
• A poor, slow, fatiguing reading ability prone to compensatory head tilting, near-far focusing, and finger pointing
• Reversal of letters such as b and d, words such as saw and was, and numbers such as 6 and 9, or 16 and 61
• Word blurring or movement or double images
• Headaches, vertigo, or nausea brought on by reading

 Writing

• Messy, poorly angulated, or drifting handwriting prone to size, spacing, and letter-sequencing errors similar to those pictured right.

 Spelling, Math, Memory, and Grammar

• Memory instability for spelling, grammar, math, names, dates, and lists; for sequences such as the alphabet, the days of the week, and the months of the year; and for following directions.

 Speech

• Speech disorders such as slurring, stuttering, minor articulation errors, poor word recall, and auditory-input and motor-output speech time lags, rendering speech perception and enunciation more slowly than desired; and a tendency to word scrambling, slips of the tongue, or misperception of the ear

 Direction

• Right/left and related directional uncertainty, such as difficulty knowing or remembering east or west, north or south
• Easy spatial disorientation

 Time

• Delay in learning to tell time, as well as a host of time-related symptoms, including lateness, compulsive scheduling, and even procrastination or difficulty starting things on time

 Concentration and Activity (ADD or ADHD)

• Impaired concentration, distractibility, hyperactivity, or overactivity
• Behavior, temper, or impulse disturbances

 Balance and Coordination

• Difficulties with balance and coordination functions, e.g., walking, running, skipping, hopping, tying shoelaces, and buttoning buttons; accident proneness

 Psychosomatics

• Have headaches, stomachaches, nausea, excessive fatigue and related "psychosomatic" symptoms sent you from medical pillar to post, to no avail?
• Are you prone to dizziness or motion sickness? Ringing ears? Bed wetting?
• Does your infant or young child suffer from cyclical vomiting syndrome?
• Are you oversensitive to hot and cold?

 Fears and Phobias

• Fears of the dark, heights, getting lost, going to school
• Fear or the avoidance of various balance, coordination, sports, and motion-related activities
• Obsessions and compulsions
• Did you have academic problems or dyslexia as a child? Do you have phobias and related psychological and physical symptoms that have thus far defied a clear understanding and successful treatment?
• Are you frightened by heights, cars, planes, bridges, elevators, subways, tunnels, open spaces, crowds, department stores, getting lost, losing control, and/or going crazy?
• Do irresistible, repetitive thoughts and actions — obsessions and compulsions — harass you and rigidify your ability to relax freely?
• Are you compelled to touch and retouch, check and recheck, think and rethink, and forever make lists of what must be done to avoid memory uncertainty and related anxiety

 Self-Esteem/Body Image

• Are you prone to indecisiveness and feelings of inferiority, stupidity, ugliness?

 Mood/Depression

• Mood fluctuations, depressions, irritability

 Socialization

• Inept social skills
• Shyness, fear of rejection, etc.

 Emotions/Expression

• Difficulty reading one?s own emotions and those of others, ie Aspergers Syndrome
• Impaired/awkward facial and/or body expressions

 Thinking/Cognition

• Slow, hesitant and/or halting thoughts and their expression
• Foggy, blank and mistaken thought sequences

Test is from http://www.dyslexiaonline.com/diagnosis/selftest.html