DYSLEXIA IS

Supporting World Dyslexia Foundation Means Supporting Your Community

In individuals with dyslexia, the brain processes written language in a slightly different way compared to those without dyslexia. While the exact cause of dyslexia is not fully understood, research suggests that there are differences in the structure and functioning of certain areas of the brain involved in language processing.

One key area affected by dyslexia is the left hemisphere of the brain, particularly the regions known as the parietotemporal and occipitotemporal areas. These areas are responsible for tasks such as phonological processing (recognizing and manipulating the sounds of language) and visual word recognition. In individuals with dyslexia, these areas may exhibit abnormal activation patterns or reduced connectivity.

Difficulties in phonological processing are a common characteristic of dyslexia. This means that individuals with dyslexia may have trouble identifying and manipulating individual sounds in words, which can impede their ability to decode and spell words accurately. This difficulty is believed to be related to differences in the way the brain processes and represents the sounds of language.

Additionally, dyslexia can also affect other cognitive processes such as working memory, attention, and processing speed, which can further contribute to reading difficulties.

It's important to note that while dyslexia is associated with certain brain differences, it does not mean that individuals with dyslexia have a damaged or abnormal brain. Rather, these differences in brain structure and function are thought to be variations within the normal range of human brain differences.

Understanding how dyslexia affects the brain can help inform interventions and strategies that target the specific difficulties experienced by individuals with dyslexia, ultimately supporting their reading and learning abilities.

Become a Sponsor

As a sponsor of World Dyslexia Foundation, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of those we serve. Your support will help us to expand our programs and services, reach more people in need, and make a lasting difference in the community. Contact us today to learn more about becoming a sponsor.

support Our Cause

World Dyslexia Foundation, we believe in the power of education to transform lives. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we are devoted to providing free, high-quality education to teachers, enabling them to assess and effectively teach children and adults with dyslexia. Your generous support can help us illuminate the path to success for these individuals.

Every single donation we receive fuels our mission. It allows us to provide free teaching and invaluable resources to educators, children, and adults with dyslexia. With your help, we can continue to break down barriers and create a world where everyone has an equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of their learning abilities.

Your donation is not just a gift; it is an investment in the future of education and the future of individuals with dyslexia. As a donor, you play a crucial role in helping us make a difference. Your contribution will ensure that no child grows up without the ability to read and write, a fundamental right that we often take for granted.

Thank you for considering our request for support. The journey towards creating a more inclusive and supportive society for individuals with dyslexia is a long one, but with your help, we can make it happen. Remember, every dollar you donate brings us one step closer to our goal.

Together, we can change lives. Please make a donation today and join us in our mission of empowering individuals with dyslexia. We cannot do this without you. Thank you for your generosity and support.

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible. You will receive a receipt for your donation which can be used for your tax records.

About Us

ABOUT US

Welcome to World Dyslexia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with dyslexia. Our foundation was founded by individuals who have firsthand experience with dyslexia and understand the challenges and struggles associated with it. We believe that everyone, regardless of their learning differences, deserves an equal opportunity to succeed.

Our Founders: Understanding Dyslexia from Within

What sets World Dyslexia Foundation apart is that our founders themselves have dyslexia. They have personally experienced the trials and tribulations that come with this learning difference, and this has fueled their passion to make a difference in the lives of others facing similar challenges. Their personal insights and experiences have shaped our organization's mission and approach, ensuring that we provide the most effective support and resources to those with dyslexia.

Why Support World Dyslexia Foundation?

1. Personal Connection: By supporting the World Dyslexia Foundation, you are joining a community of individuals who understand dyslexia on a deep and personal level. Our founders' experiences allow us to empathize with the struggles faced by individuals with dyslexia, making our programs and services more effective and relevant.

2. Free Teaching for Teachers: We are proud to be the first non-profit organization offering free teaching programs to educators. Our goal is to empower teachers with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively assess and teach children and adults with dyslexia. By supporting us, you are contributing to the professional development of teachers, enabling them to create inclusive learning environments for students with dyslexia.

3. Empowering Children and Adults: Our focus extends beyond educators. We offer free teaching programs for children and adults with dyslexia, helping them develop crucial literacy skills, build confidence, and overcome the challenges they face. By supporting World Dyslexia Foundation, you are directly impacting the lives of individuals with dyslexia, enabling them to reach their full potential.

Join Our Mission

World Dyslexia Foundation invites you to join our mission of transforming the lives of individuals with dyslexia. Your support will help us expand our reach, develop innovative programs, and provide essential resources to those in need. Together, we can create a world where dyslexia is understood, accommodated, and celebrated.

Get Involved

There are several ways you can support World Dyslexia Foundation:

1. Donate: Your financial contributions allow us to continue offering free teaching programs and support services to individuals with dyslexia. Every donation, no matter the size, makes a meaningful impact.

2. Volunteer: Join our team of passionate volunteers and contribute your skills and expertise towards advancing our mission. Whether you have experience in education, fundraising, or marketing, your help is valuable.

3. Spread Awareness: Share our message with your friends, family, and colleagues. By raising awareness about dyslexia and the World Dyslexia Foundation, you can help us reach more individuals in need of support.

Together, let's create a world where dyslexia is understood, where individuals with dyslexia thrive, and where their unique talents and strengths are celebrated. Join the World Dyslexia Foundation today and make a difference in the lives of those with dyslexia.

Are you Dyslexic

Are you Dyslexic

Have trouble reading, writing or spelling?
Have trouble expressing yourself?
Think it’s hard to pay attention?
Get headaches when reading?
Think people see you as effortless careless?
Often see pictures from different places at the same time?
Have trouble with math?
Have a tendency to daydream?
Often become disoriented?

What are the Signs of Dyslexia

Had unusual developmental stages (crawling, walking, talking).
Learn best through hands-on experience, demonstrations, experimentation, visual aids, & observation.
Complain of feeling or seeing non-existent movement while reading, writing, or copying.
Handwriting varies or is illegible.

Is Dyslexia a Talent?

When properly trained and informed, a dyslexic can use their natural abilities to shift perceptions.
Many highly educated and talented people have dyslexia.
Dyslexia does not affect the intelligence level – yet it does impair ones ability to learn, retain, and relay information.

Dyslexia is

The ability to see multidimensionally.
A talent to think 3-dimensionally, in pictures, like computer graphics.
Optical illusions: You perceive things in a different, unique way. You see changes in the details around you.

An Emotional Disability

For some dyslexics, it can move you from a calm state of mind into confusion and a reaction in seconds. It makes it hard to understand these dyslexics. If you are this type of dyslexic, it tends to make you moody, overly sensitive, and unable to communicate easily with others. Thus, there is no question that it affects your relationships.

Greater or Lesser in Symptoms. . .

. . . depending on your tolerance for confusion that moment, that hour, or that day. Ordinarily, confusion precedes learning; in a dyslexic, confusion leads to more confusion, which tends to block the learning process.

A Collection of Symptoms in Reading:

Omissions of letters in words; omissions of words, or not “seeing” a word; additions of words, transpositions (switching) of letter order; repetitions of words or sentences; reading and rereading; practicing what you’re to read and still making embarrassing mistakes; reading worse under pressure, not remembering what you read; reversals of word order; reversals of letters, reversals of words; stumbling over words, sounding out a word and then not recognizing it in another sentence; confusion over the author’s meaning or purpose, “rewriting” the author’s words and feeling frustrated because you can’t understand what you’re reading. You feel that something is wrong with you.

Confusion in Math (Dyscalculia):

Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing incorrectly, with seemingly small, “careless” errors. Transposing and reversing numbers. “Forgetting” to do something; somehow, coming up with other answers: Adding when you should be subtracting; suddenly multiplying when you should be adding. Somehow losing the process; not “seeing” a problem to be worked on the page and, thus, not answering it. Not reading the directions and incorrectly working the entire page. Often not knowing how you did on a test. You can work the sample problem, but you can’t apply the process to a slightly different problem. Everyone thinks you could do it if you try.

Inconsistency in Subject Matters:

You may even do well in math, but you don’t have a clue when doing reading, writing, and spelling; or the opposite may be true. Dyslexia can affect learning in all subject areas, or a few at a time; this can vary throughout your life. You feel that you have to work 7 times as hard as anyone else; or you just give up. “You have been slipping through the cracks.”

Irritating to Others. . .

. . . because the person who has it makes mistakes that look careless.

Sensitivity

You are upset when you make mistakes, or when you feel accused of being wrong. (The positive side of this is you are keenly sensitive to others, and are able to perceive others’ thoughts and feelings.) You also have a strong sense of justice; and you’re always right!

A Talent!

You are excellent in art, music, drama, sports, carpentry, mechanics, computers, designing, electronics, cooking, building, troubleshooting, and brainstorming your way out of anything. You excel in hands-on projects and activities. You are creative and bright. That’s why others think you should just try harder!

Multi-faceted

Dyslexics have complex lives; many dyslexics are intense and “high maintenance” people.

Correctable & Manageable . . .

. . . once you have been trained to do the correction, catch your confusions, and clear up your “stumblers.” You can then experience the feeling of being focused. You will then learn to alternate being focused and unfocused, corrected and dyslexic. You will use your dyslexia to learn instead of trying to plow through it day after day, becoming exhausted “trying” and “concentrating” to drill and remember. You will know when to be focused and when to be dyslexic, turning the perceptual talent off and on as quickly as you blink your eyes! You will never lose your own talents and abilities, but rather enhance them even more. Along with the rest of our techniques, you can keep boosting your skills and your self-esteem immeasurably!

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH DYSLEXIA:

Inventors & Scientists:

Henry Ford, Inventor of the assembly line
The Wright Brothers, Aviators
Michael Faraday, Inventor of electromagnets
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone
Carol Greider, Molecular Biologist
John Robert Skoyles, Neurosurgeon
Ann Bancroft, Explorer
Pierre Curie, Physicist
Harvey Cushing, Surgeon
Sir Isaac Newton, Scientist
Thomas Edison, Inventor of the light bulb
Albert Einstein, Physicist and Mathematician
Fred Epstein, Neurosurgeon
Galileo Galilei, Scientist
Willem Hollenbach, Astronomical Photographer and Inventor
John R. Horner, Paleontologist
Archer Martin, Chemist
Louis Pasteur, Microbiologist
Helen B. Taussig, Cardiologist
Werner Von Braun, Rockets
Eli Whitney, Inventor of the cotton gin

Athletes:

Babe Ruth
Jason Kidd
Nolan Ryan
Jackie Stewart
Muhammad Ali
Scott Quinnell
Duncan Goodhew
Magic Johnson
Greg Louganis
Bob May
Diamond Dallas Page
Steve Redgrave
Tim Tebow
Brent Sopel

Writers:

Jules Verne
Agatha Christie
Avi
John Corrigan
Steven Cannell
Samuel R. Delaney
Andrew Dornenburg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg
Gustave Flaubert
John Irving
Elizabeth Daniels Squire
Patricia Polacco
Eileen Simpson
Bernie Taylor
Jules Verne
Victor Villasenor
Edgar Allen Poe
W.B. Yeats
Jeanne Betancourt
Hans Christian Anderson
Sir Francis Bacon

Musicians:

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Harry Belafonte
Noel Gallagher
Nigel Kennedy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Political Leaders:

Benjamin Franklin
Napoleon Bonaparte
King Charles
George Washington
Winston Churchill
George W. Bush
Eleanor Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
Princess Beatrice
Andrew Jackson
Woodrow Wilson
Robert Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
Lyndon B. Johnson
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

Actors & Entertainers:

Fred Astaire
Harry Anderson
Harry Belafonte
Orlando Bloom
Patrick Dempsey
Dave Foley
Harrison Ford
Danny Glover
Tracey Gold
Whoopi Goldberg
Susan Hampshire
Salma Hayek
Anthony Hopkins
Keira Knightley
Jay Leno
Edward James Olmos
Oliver Reed
Keanu Reeves
Will Smith
Tom Smothers
Suzanne Somers
Billy Bob Thornton
Vince Vaughn
Lindsay Wagner
Robin Williams
Henry Winkler
Loretta Young

Artists, Designers & Architects:

Pablo Picasso
Ansel Adams
Alice Williams, Photography
Andy Warhol
August Rodin
Bennett Strahan
David Bailey, Photographer
Ignacio Gomez, Muralist
Jorn Utzoh, Architect
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Toth
Tommy Hilfiger, Designer
Vincent Van Gogh

Military Heroes:

"Stonewall" Jackson
George Patton

Filmmakers:

Robert Benton
Nicole Betancourt
Walt Disney
Soren Kragh Jacobsen

Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders:

Nelson Rockefeller, Philanthropist
G. Chris Anderson, Paine Webber
William Hewlett, Hewlett-Packard
Ted Turner, Turner Broadcasting
Paul J. Orfalea, Kinko's
Craig McCaw, Telecommunications
John T. Chambers, Cisco
Ingvar Kamprad, I-KEA

O.D. McKee, McKee Foods

Richard Branson, Virgin Enterprises

David Neeleman, JetBlue Air

Charles Schwab, Investor

Frank Winfield Woolworth, F.W. Woolworth

Steve Jobs, Apple

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Dyslexia is a learning difference that affects 1 out of 5 people

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