A common learning disability that causes the reader to not be able to distinguish different letters and numbers. They can appear upside down, backwards, or out of order to them.

Mixing up the order or orientation of letters or numbers. http://www.dyslexia-information.com/what_is_dyslexia.htm a much better and more accurate description is in the link. EDIT much better than my description - that comment did not relate to anyone else's answer :)

my 7th grade math teacher was dislexic... Developmental dyslexia is a condition or learning disability which causes difficulty with reading and writing. Its standard definition is a difficulty in reading and writing in spite of normal or above-average intelligence and cognitive abilities. The word "dyslexia" comes from the Greek words δυς- dys- ("impaired") and λέξις lexis ("word"). People are often identified as dyslexic when their reading or writing problems cannot be explained by a lack of intellectual ability, inadequate instruction, or sensory problems such as poor eyesight. The term dyslexia is also sometimes used to refer to the loss of reading ability following brain damage. This form of dyslexia is more often referred to as either acquired dyslexia or "Alexia". Dyslexia primarily impacts reading and writing abilities; however, other difficulties have been reported including deficits in processing spoken language[1] as well as non-language difficulties[2]. this information is direct from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dislexia

People are often identified as dyslexic when their reading or writing problems cannot be explained by a lack of intellectual ability, inadequate instruction, or sensory problems such as poor eyesight. Dyslexia primarily impacts reading and writing abilities; however, other difficulties have been reported including deficits in processing spoken language. as well as non-language difficulties. Despite popular belief, dyslexia is not caused by reversing the order of letters in reading, nor is it a visual perception deficit that involves reading letters or words backwards or upside down. Evidence that dyslexia is a neurological or brain-based condition is substantial. Research also suggests an association with biochemical and genetic markers. Some question whether the term dyslexia is so fraught with popular misconceptions that it should be dropped altogether and replaced with the term Reading Disorder or Reading Disability (RD).

A burden! My grandson deals with the problem every day. Makes school a nightmare. He is so frustrated in tests etc as he knows the answers but can't read the question sheets quickly enough to get through the tests in the required time. Every test becomes a literacy and reading test rather than a geography, math or whatever. It is kind of like testing someone on the different fruits but asking the questions in in some obscure language like Mongolian. They know the answers but have no opportunity to get through the reading part. I believe there should be in specialised classes as they are usually extremely bright, normally have the ability to think outside the square and have talents in other more creative areas .... which often count for very little in the education system. Maybe Montesorri type learning would be of greater benefit. These kids have to be watched emotionally as they move up the levels as they can often lose self esteem if they feel they are not keeping up or coping. Coloured glasses and co-ordination exercises seem to help quite a few of these kids.

As simple as the question appears a totally correct answer is not yet available. Dyslexia is a syndrome that exhibits several different problems that make reading much more difficult for an individual. Researchers that study dyslexia factors typicaly report that they have found the cause of dyslexia at the expense of ignoring all previous studies. This causes much confusion among anyone looking to understand "What is dyslexia?" because the answers keep changing. I am not comfortable with the conclusion that is widely reported that only high IQ people may be dyslexic. That statement only becomes true if diagnosed is added. Diagnosed dyslexics generally have average or above average IQs . It may very well be that some disadvantaged poor children with more limited language exposure and lower IQs may very well be dyslexic also and would benefit from dyslexia intervention also. Basically, without even a suggested mechanism for dyslexia only occurring in high IQ individuals I don't think it can be very productive to eliminate lower IQ individuals from consideration for dyslexia. Here are some factors that can cause reading problems for dyslexics. 1) phonological problems- difficulty hearing the difference in the sounds that make up words. 2) language processing problems- difficulty processing sounds as language. 3)visual processing problems- difficulty seeing the page in a clear, focused and stable manner. Back to your question, dyslexia is a syndrome that, for an individual, can have different amounts of reading dysfunction caused by a combination of the above problems. Some individuals have as their cause 1 predominate problem and little effect from others. I sell See Right Dyslexia Glasses that remove described visual problems for dyslexics. Only a minority of dyslexics have visual processing problems that are predominate. The dyslexics that can describe a visual problem that makes reading difficult can have that problem removed by these dyslexia glasses. They have a money back guarantee and require no personal evaluation. More information about these glasses is available at www.dyslexiaglasses.com

A reading disorder characterized by reading ability below the expected level given a child's age, school grade, and intelligence. has been estimated to occur in 4% of the UK population, and 10% show some of the symptoms of dyslexia. It has been defined by the British Dyslexia Association as "a combination of abilities and difficulties that affect the learning process in one or more of reading, spelling, writing. Accompanying weaknesses may be identified in areas of speed of processing, short-term memory, sequencing and organisation, auditory and/or visual perception, spoken language and motor skills

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a learning disdorder. often when people have dyslexia, they see things backwards like a d, they would see a b