Dyslexia: Learning Disorder or Creative Gift?

The book's subtitle issues its rhetorical challenge, and invites readers to revise their understanding of dyslexia. The American Ronald Davis has been working as a pioneer in the field for over 30 years and articulates eight abilities shared by dyslexics such as enhanced awareness of the environment, thinking in pictures, highly developed intuition and vivid imagination. Interestingly, this correlates with right hemisphere thinking and is arguably only stigmatised in a left hemisphere dominated society. It appears that Rudolf Steiner was himself dyslexic and his lectures and way of thinking shed an interesting light on the field and informed his own teaching methods, which have been carried forward in the Waldorf education programmes. No one reading this book will think about dyslexia in the same way again.