He may go on having difficulty in spelling, in reading complex text, and in writing essays or reports at school, college or at work. Dyslexic difficulties can be helped by skilled specialist teaching, whatever the degree of difficulty. About one pupil in twenty five About 350,000 pupils in UK schools now Three times as many boys as girls Confidence and self-esteem Dyslexia tends to run in families. Genes which may be responsible for dyslexia have been identified. Dyslexic people have a different organisation of cells within certain small parts of the brain.
Dyslexia tends to slow down processing of information in the brain.
Each dyslexic person has his own pattern of strengths and weaknesses. Each dyslexic person's difficulties are different and vary from slight to very severe disruption of learning. The majority of dyslexic children have difficulty with the language, memory, and sequencing processes of basic maths. Many dyslexic people shine in the arts, creativity, design, computing and lateral thinking. He may have problems getting his thoughts together coherently for story or essay writing.