Dyslexia and Creatives

Dyslexia covers a complex range of learning disorders and different ways of thinking that has the positive benefit of greatly boosting creativity, inventiveness and artistic ability. There thus seem to be a greater proportion of people suffering from some form of dyslexia in the creative areas, many of whom do not know that they have it and just feel different, inadequate in many areas or even stupid.

My own experience of dyslexia started with our discovery that my wife and daughter both have dyslexia to some degree or another. This was a huge shock but made perfect sense and explained many things. In my wife's case, to discover this at the age of 47 has meant that she can stop thinking of herself as stupid and start developing additional coping strategies from a position of knowledge. In the case of our daughter, now 9, it explains her issues with learning to read and memory of certain types of things.

Our journey is now at the point that both my wife and daughter have Irlen colored lenses in reading glasses and, for the first time, the letters and words have stopped moving and jumping around on the page. Tiredness associated with reading has gone and new learning strategies are being looked at for our daughter.

So in an effort to help others who may be in this situation I will be posting a series of articles looking at dsylexia, coping strategies, technology support and making use of the benefits of dyslexia.

Cell Phone That Reads to Blind or Dyslexics Ready to Change Lives

Dyslexia, the Hidden Problem Among Creatives