Dyslexia Awareness Month

October, 2018 is...

Dyslexia Awareness Month and was created by The International Dyslexia Association

Dyslexia affects from 5% to 10% of the world’s population, making their lives difficult each and every day. Dyslexia Awareness Month is the time to think about how much harder dyslexic people’s lives are than our own and try to be more understanding of their situation. 

A special dyslexia font has been invented to help those afflicted to read more easily.

https://www.dyslexiefont.com/

https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/  

Dyslexia was first identified in German physician Oswald Berkhan in 1881 and officially named “dyslexia” by ophthalmologist Rudolph Berlin 6 years later. Berkhan discovered the existence of the developmental reading disorder later named dyslexia while studying the case of a young boy who had severe problems learning to read and write properly, despite being overall bright and intellectually and physically capable. 

Check my other posts for signs of dyslexia, intervention and tips

http://slpzone.blogspot.com/2014/01/signs-of-dyslexia-and-first-steps.html
http://slpzone.blogspot.com/2013/10/dyslexia-intervention-and-tips.html

http://slpzone.blogspot.com/2012/11/backward-or-mirror-writing-in-young.html