It is not the consequence of somebody s intellectual level, lack of motivation, emotional disturbance or their surroundings. Dyslexia is a specific learning disability, which hinders the learning of literacy skills. The basic cause of dyslexia is not yet fully understood and research is still going on. Therefore, there are many different opinions about its causes. After checking different information resources one can conclude that it all happens in the brain.
Dyslexia runs in families and thus is inheritable.
Dyslexia stays with you throughout your life. It s not something that you outgrow when you become an adult. However, because of the inefficient use of the left hemisphere which controls linear processing there tends to be a problem with literacy skills.