You can't 'overcome' Dyslexia

Mrs. Route, once again you seem to be talking about something of which you know little.

First of all - why not do as you yourself said you would do earlier this week and stop posting on here. You will not be missed.

Secondly whilst dyslexia cannot be "cured" a person can be taught a whole range of strategies which can render it virtually invisible. I have had students with severe dyslexia go to University and with one memorable student the university would not even acknowledge that the student was dyslexic until they separated her from her computer.

However there are indications that things can be massively improved.

Let me quote you a source:

Dyslexia-specific brain activation profile becomes normal following successful remedial training.

It's a peer-reviewed academic paper given in 2002 easily found on the internet and concludes:

.....that the deficit in functional brain organization underlying dyslexia can be reversed after sufficiently intense intervention lasting as little as 2 months, and are consistent with current proposals that reading difficulties in many children represent a variation of normal development that can be altered by intensive intervention.

It is why trained teachers like my wife spend two years doing courses part time and often in their own time and with their own money to help them learn a range of ways of dealing with the range of dyslexia that is found nowadays in an FE college.

I am sure there are a huge number of educational researchers who will be interested in your statement that "with dyslexia also comes a deep intelligence".

I and the hundreds of other people who spend their whole lives working with students with dyslexia have never noticed this and I will be delighted to read the results of your peer-reviewed and published research that leads you to say this. For there seems to be no-one else in the world of educational research publications that agrees with you.

Of course I suppose they could all be dyslexic fundamentalists all frightened to acknowledge your superior knowledge.