Dyslexia · Reading difficulties

I don’t read differently.
I process differently. I think differently.

Dyslexia is not a question of intelligence. It is a different way of processing written language. With the right support, a student with dyslexia can read, write and learn successfully.

6-10%
del alumnado español tiene dislexia. Entre 2 y 3 alumnos por clase de 25.
Plataforma Dislexia · Change Dyslexia, 2023
65%
del fracaso escolar en España se asocia a problemas de lectura, escritura o cálculo.
Federación Plataforma Dislexia, 2023
33%
of children with dyslexia in Spain get the specialist support they need.
Plataforma Dislexia España, 2020
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People who have lived it

In their own words.

🇺🇸 Estados Unidos

“I have not failed ten thousand times. I have found ten thousand ways that won’t work.”

Thomas Edison
Inventor with dyslexia. His teachers said he was too stupid to learn. He invented the light bulb, the phonograph and the film camera.
🇬🇧 Reino Unido

“La dislexia me obligó a pensar diferente. Eso acabó siendo mi mayor ventaja competitiva.”

Richard Branson
Fundador del Grupo Virgin. Con dislexia y TDAH. Abandonó el colegio a los 16 años. Hoy tiene más de 400 empresas.
🇪🇸 España

“Dyslexia is a problem when the system doesn’t know how to teach you. Once they learn to teach you as you are, it stops being a problem.”

Luz Rello
Investigadora española con dislexia. Fundadora de Change Dyslexia. Premio MIT a la mejor investigadora joven.
Bibliography
  • Shaywitz, S. (2003). Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems. Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Rello, L. (Change Dyslexia, 2018). Superar la dislexia: una experiencia personal a través de la investigación. Paidós.
  • Fernández Huerta, J. (1959). Medidas sencillas de lecturabilidad. Consigna.
  • Flesch, R. (1948). A new readability yardstick. Journal of Applied Psychology.
  • American Psychiatric Association (2013). DSM-5: dificultad específica del aprendizaje.
  • CAST (2024). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines, version 3.0.
  • W3C (2018). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.
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