Dyslexic Advantage

DyslexicAdvantage.com Wow. If you haven’t seen this website yet, check it out. Join the conversation.

The website is hosted by the doctors who co-authored The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain, which I’ve just started reading. The opening pages are pretty exciting, for example:

“Look first at individuals with dyslexia when they’re reading or spelling or performing certain other language or learning tasks. From this perspective they appear to have a learning disorder; and with respect to these tasks, they clearly do. Now look at these individuals when they’re doing almost anything else – particularly the kinds of tasks they excel at and enjoy. From this new perspective they not only cease to look disabled, but they often appear remarkably skilled or even specially advantaged. … In this book we’ll argue for a radical revision of the concept of dyslexia: a “Copernican revolution” that places abilities rather than disabilities at the center of our ideas about what it means to be an individual with dyslexia.”

Sign me up for the revolution!