Dyslexia is the primary cause of reading issues and is the most common language based learning disability.
Dyslexia often runs in families; and about 40 percent of siblings of people with dyslexia also struggle with reading. As many as 49 percent of parents of kids with dyslexia have it, too. Scientists have also found genes linked to problems with reading and processing language.
Brain imaging studies have shown brain differences between people with and without dyslexia. These differences happen in areas of the brain involved with key reading skills. Those skills are knowing how sounds are represented in words, and recognizing what written words look like.
Colleen Chow from fraseracademy.ca will be showing us how the brain is wired differently when someone has a language based learning disability.