The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.
Dyslexia was first identified by German doctor Oswald Berkhan in 1881. 6 years later it was given the name dyslexia by Rudolf Berlin. It comes from the Greek words âdus,â which means hard or difficult and âlexis,â which means speech or word.
In a large Finnish family a mutation in a gene on chromosome 15 (christened DYX1C1 because it was the first dyslexia gene to be discovered) is definitely associated with their dyslexic problems. However in our Oxford families when we looked at the DNA of over 1000 individuals we found that those who had this fairly common mutation actually had slightly better orthographic scores than those with the commonest variant.