Papers On Dyslexia

Taking Another Look at Dyslexia There are a lot of preconceived and misunderstood notions when it comes to the word of dyslexia. Dyslexia can affect reading, writing, and spelling; which is neurological and effects the person throughout their lives. To look at what people are saying about dyslexia here are three different sources talking about it. There are several different viewpoints when it come to the topic of dyslexia, as well as how many affected by it. In a newspaper article from the New York Times names the upside to dyslexia, where Annie Paul takes a different twist on the viewpoint of dyslexia. From a book called The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald Davis. Both Paul and Davis take the viewpoint of dyslexia as a gift and not just a disability.
Each of these three articles point to the fact there are still a lot of misconceptions and a lack of knowledge and understanding of dyslexia. Even though there has been a lot of research done in the last decades on the topic of dyslexia, there are still these misconceptions, missing understandings and preconceived notions.
To take a look at the topic of dyslexia here are three different sources and how they address the topic of dyslexia. Each of the sources are different types of sources; they are a book, newspaper article, and a research paper. The first is a book written by Ronald Davis, who wrote the book The Gift of Dyslexia, where he talks about how dyslexia is a gift and not just a learning disability that is misunderstood. He went on to
This question’s answers will differ, from different people and researchers. Ronald Davis, the author of the book The Gift of Dyslexia has this to say: “There is no definitive diagnostic test for dyslexia” (120.) Paul “estimated that 15 percent of Americans are affected” (Paul), and Ness and Southall say “dyslexia affects approximately 5 to 15 percent of the population” (36.) Each of these sources has a different view and statistics to say about it; this could be due to that fact that dyslexia falls on a spectrum scale and not everyone who is dyslexic shows the symptom to the same extents as others. The one thing that they can all agree on is that dyslexia is passed down through family trees, but it does not affect everyone. Davis has a theory on why it does not affect everyone in the family. His theory is “Being born with this genetic code doesn’t give them dyslexia, it only makes it possible for them to develop it” (Davis 73); he goes on to state that the person has to trigger the gift (dyslexia) in the first year of their life. His theory is not supported by Paul, Ness, and Southall, who do not give an answer to how a person become dyslexic; all they say is that it happens. So, to answer the question, no one knows what percentage of the world's population have dyslexia and society may not find the answer to this question for a long