Dyslexia and mathematics?

Both my daughter & I are dyslexic. My daughter can read quite well, despite transposing or switching some words around (e.g was to saw), her hand writing is shocking, her spelling and maths is not terribly good either. Despite being able to write very well from a early age, I did not learn to read until 14, I could spell large longer words, but had trouble with homophones, teachers thought I was odd, one teacher went as far as saying I was retarded especially in maths. I eventually failed high school. I later learnt at the age of 30 I was dyslexic, when my daughter was diagnosed as being dyslexic. With a lot of work and research I found & developed some strategies to help my daughter through school, I then used these strategies to return to school as an adult. Dyslexia affects many aspects of learning, reading, writing, spelling, memory and maths. Thinking about it logically to do maths, write and spell one has to be able to read or understand the letters, numbers and or symbols to some degree. Dyslexia affect each person a little differently, and some people may have a deficit in one area or all areas of learning. Hence the sub categories; Dys is Greek - meaning difficulty Dyslexia - means difficulty with reading letters, words & or symbols, also effect the ability to memorize, spelling and so forth. Dyscalculia - means difficulty with solving maths problems Dysgraphia - means difficulty with writing in a straight line, or in a uniform size. Dyslexics often mix up letters such as d, b, w, m, x, y etc, numbers often are 6's & 9's, and homophones (similar sounding words, but different spelling e.g flour & flower) are also problematic. The ideal font size is 14, and one of the most dyslexic friendly fonts is Comic Sans. Dyslexia is NOT a IQ problem, in fact many dyslexics are highly intelligent people, who have high IQ's, we just need different ways or strategies to learn.

dyscalculia

My fiance has dyslexia. He is the type with bad reading comprehension and occasional composition, and it sometimes causes his words to mesh together. His basic math (addition, subtraction, multiplication,etc.) are excellent on paper, but not verbally. Anything more complicated isn't easy for him. His upside, is the excellent grasp of common sense, extreme strategic mind, and somewhat childlike wonder at certain things his interest piques at. (any strategy or wide-world video game, chess, other cultures, and history) Through my experience around him, I'd say its just the individual.

Absolutely. I have dyscalculia. Ever since I had been little, performing math was hard for me. Meanwhile, I was a voracious speed reader who flew through books. I've accomodated my disability by using calculators. I've also learned to think of math as investigating a mystery which needs solving--instead of 'my disability and something that I am no good at'. And now I actually look forward to doing something which I honestly used to fear because it was associatedwith my disability---and being slow. I am good at solving mysteries.