Dyslexia is a two sided coin as the condition forces the brain to compensate by engaging resources it would not normally use for word recognition- this action expands the breadth of thought for problem solving and brain storming.  In grade-school I thought I was dumb and I was fortunate to scrape through, however as much as dyslexia subtract in my youth it added as I matured as my brain compensated for this weakness. After 2 degrees, economics and electric engineering, I can attest that there can be good after the bad.  I'm a great out-of-the-box thinker and have had a successful career - Bell Northern Reasearch followed by a couple of startups.  As a child, I felt useless and stupid - and I dreaded the teacher calling on me to read a passage or answer a question. I feel fortunate for the support I got from my parents and selected teachers for recognizing the intelligence which was masked by my reading skills which were 4 yrs behind my grade. To parents: never give up on your kids.