Quick Facts about Dyslexia

•Dyslexia is hereditary. Children with a dyslexic parent have a 50 percent chance of inheriting the disability.

•Dyslexia affects one in every five people in America.

•Reading disabilities are estimated to compromise 80 percent of all learning disabilities.

•Forty-percent of those with dyslexia have a secondary condition, such as Attention Deficit Disorder.

•Children are usually not identified as having a reading disability until the third or fourth grade.

•Children with dyslexia can be identified as early as 5 years old.

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