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In
a nutshell:
Very
poor reading and spelling in a bright person with nothing
else wrong.
In
official detail:
Dyslexia is a severe reading problem of neurological origin
in a person with average or above average intelligence, for
whom there are no other physical, medical, or psychological
conditions sufficiently serious to account
for the language handling deficits.
In
a nutshell:
Anybody
can have it, and, yes, it often runs in families.
In
detail:
Conservative
estimates vary between 5 and 10 per cent of the population.
No correlation has been found between the incidence of dyslexia
and nationality, income, ethnicity, race, or IQ, and experts
are even beginning to question whether it is more common among
boys than girls. It has a genetic component
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