Writes in a straightforward manner that is easy to understand…

Can dyslexics excel as writers? A good question! The quote above is taken from the report card of one of our clients’ children who has a language-based learning disability. With some coaching from her tutors, her weakness has become her “trump card.” Because her vocabulary is relatively limited, she has been forced to learn how to express herself with simple words, using simple sentence constructions. As she has matured, and her ideas have become more complex and nuanced, the growth of her vocabulary has not kept up.This situation has repeatedly forced her to perform the impressive task of communicating the very complex with the very simple; in other words, saying the most with the least!

This skill – of communicating the complex with the simple – is required of poets, philosophers, book reviewers, teachers, and even scientists. Our client’s child may be behind her peers in the size ofher vocabulary, but she is ahead of them in this analytical and compositional ability. In twenty years, she may not author novels (she may, like Agatha Christie), but she may well compose poems or tutor others in scientific theory.

Time and again, we have seen children’s “disabilities,” or areas of weakness, turn into strengths.  With encouragement and proper guidance, even a dyslexic can develop his or her unique style of literary expression!

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