Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
The SUPERPOWERS of Dyslexia & Dyscalculia. You are in good company!
Some famous dyslexics & dyscalculics include:
Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Leonardo da Vinci, Steven Spielberg, Walt Disney, Robbie Williams, Bill Gates, Cher, Benjamin Franklin among many others.
Dyslexia
“Dyslexia is primarily a set of processing difficulties that affect the acquisition of reading and spelling. In dyslexia, some or all aspects of literacy attainment are weak in relation to age, standard teaching and instruction, and level of other attainments. Across languages and age groups, difficulties in reading and spelling fluency are a key marker of dyslexia. The nature and developmental trajectory of dyslexia depends on multiple genetic and environmental influences."
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Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) , adopted by The British Dyslexia Association
Dyscalculia
" A specific and persistent difficulty in understanding numbers which can lead to a diverse range of difficulties with mathematics. It will be unexpected in relation to age, level of education and experience and occurs across all ages and abilities.
Mathematics difficulties are best thought of as a continuum, not a distinct category, and they have many causal factors. Dyscalculia falls at one end of the spectrum and will be distinguishable from other maths issues due to the severity of difficulties with number sense, including subitising, symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude comparison, and ordering. It can occur singly but often co-occurs with other specific learning difficulties, mathematics anxiety and medical conditions."
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British Dyslexia Association