“In 2004 in the U.S., 15% to 20% of people have a reading disability and, of those,…

“In 2004 in the U.S., 15% to 20% of people have a reading disability and, of those, 85% have dyslexia, according to the International Dyslexia Association in Baltimore. Simply put, dyslexia is a language-based disorder that affects reading and writing. Research shows that it’s caused by varying degrees of faulty wiring in the brain. Instead of realizing that the word bat is made up of three units of speech, or phonemes — b, aaaa, and t — a dyslexic hears only one sound."