Dyslexia part 1
October is also dyslexia awareness month, and this is also something I can talk a LOT about. Not only am I a certified dyslexia teacher, I'm also mildly dyslexic. Though I didn't find this out until I was already out of college and had my first classroom job as an educational assistant. It's estimated that dyslexia makes up 10-20% of the entire world population. It's not a sudden occurrence, it's always been here, and it's not a disability per say, it's only considered that because we are living in a text heavy world. We never knew about it before because reading and writing is a newer invention in our human existence. The brain that causes dyslexia variance has always been there, but initially, reading and writing was only reserved for the elite, and not the general public, so we had no way of knowing it was there until suddenly, a whole bunch of kids couldn't learn to read. It's a normal and very real variance of the brain. ...