Ask any dyslexia teacher and they will tell you that dyslexia is a life long condition. The symptoms can be managed so that the child will be able to read, write and spell at a reasonable level but they will always be dyslexic. Anyone standing up and saying that it doesn’t have to be that way comes in for a lot of flak. Either because they are trying to sell something or because their ideas threaten the status quo.

Myomancy is taking a long, hard look at Is There a Cure For Dyslexia?

As always with dyslexia the starting point is what we mean when we say someone is dyslexic. If you define dyslexia as just a problem with reading then when a dyslexic learns to read they must be ‘cured’ because they no long fit the description of dyslexia. The reality is that dyslexia is a syndrome, a collection of symptoms where the sufferer needs to have several, but not necessarily all symptoms, to be diagnosed. These symptoms include reading, spelling and writing problems plus poor short-term memory, poor phonological abilities and poor motor skills (clumsiness). This definition of dyslexia as a syndrome makes discussion of a cure even harder. How many symptoms of dyslexia have to disappear or be reduced before the person is cured?

Find out more in the Myomancy dyslexia section.