I like Magpie am a teacher and have been taught absolutely nothing about dyslexia. When my eldest daughter started school I was concerned that despite obvious intelligence and ability to learn she struggled with reading. One teacher even said she read slowly on purpose and that this meant she could only read one page a week instead of a book like the rest of them. She is now 17 and when she started college they gave all the students a dyslexia test and she came out as borderline or mild dyslexic. She still finds reading and spelling a chore but has managed despite the system which failed to recognise the problem earlier on. She is also left handed and we think this may have been an effect of her having been born with very low apgar scores (2) after a long and difficult birth rather than an inherited thing.
BTW watch out for her in years to come on the stage or TV as she wants to be an actress and is currently studying Performing Arts.