What is Dyslexia?
'''Dyslexia''', or '''word blindness''', is a [[learning disability]] that affects reading.<ref name=ninds1>{{cite web |url=https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Dyslexia-Information-Page |title=Dyslexia Information Page |date=2 November 2018 |publisher=National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Siegel LS | title = Perspectives on dyslexia | journal = Paediatrics & Child Health | volume = 11 | issue = 9 | pages = 581–7 | date = November 2006 | pmid = 19030329 | pmc = 2528651 | doi = 10.1093/pch/11.9.581 }}</ref> Different people are affected to different degrees. This condition makes it difficult to learn and understand things in the same way others do. It is a very common problem. Dyslexia affects the way the [[brain]] understands words. The most common signs of dyslexia are [[reading]] and [[writing]] problems.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Leseyane|first1=Monicca|last2=Mandende|first2=Peter|last3=Makgato|first3=Mary|last4=Cekiso|first4=Madoda|date=2018-03-05|title=Dyslexic learners' experiences with their peers and teachers in special and mainstream primary schools in North-West Province|url=https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/article/view/363|journal=African Journal of Disability|language=English|volume=7|pages=7|doi=10.4102/ajod.v7i0.363|issn=2226-7220|pmc=5843944|pmid=29535918|via=AJOD}}</ref> Estimates are that in the [[United States]] between 5 and 9% of school children have dyslexia. Another source says it affects 3–7% of the population.<ref name=Koo2013>{{cite book|last1=Kooij|first1=J. J. Sandra|title=Adult ADHD diagnostic assessment and treatment|date=2013|publisher=Springer|location=London|isbn=9781447141389|page=83|edition=3rd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JM_awX-mSPoC&pg=PA83|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430012545/https://books.google.com/books?id=JM_awX-mSPoC&pg=PA83|archive-date=30 April 2016}}</ref> Up to 20% of the general population may have some degree of symptoms.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.