Dyslexia is the most common cause of student reading, spelling
and writing problems. Nearly 2 million public school children
struggle with this learning disability, and twenty percent of
those students will drop out of school. A new study reveals that
spacing letters farther apart can help dyslexic kids read
quicker and make fewer mistakes as they read. While the strategy
isnt a cure for dyslexia, it may help children read more easily
and become better learners overall. One of ways that children
with dyslexia improve their reading skills is through practice.
But frustration often leads them to give up. "The consequence is
that children with dyslexia read very, very little. We give the
comparison that a child with dyslexia reads in a year what a
normal reader reads in two days," says researcher Johannes C.
Ziegler, PhD, director of research in the cognitive psychology
laboratory at Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France.
Studies of people with dyslexia show that their brains may be
overly attentive to i