Each person has a unique learning style that goes beyond a hands-on versus a classroom setting. Often times, individuals with uncommon methods of learning are considered less intelligent, but that simply isn’t the case. “All brains are good brains, sometime it just takes a little bit of elbow grease to find out how each brain leans best,” said speech-language pathologist Sarah Carlson, MA, CCC-SLP. Dyslexia, for example, is a neurologically based learning disability that involves difficulty reading, spelling and occasionally writing. Dyslexia is also often genetic. Each classroom has approximately three dyslexic students, according to Carlson. With an estimated one in five, people, or twenty percent of the population, dyslexia is one of the most common learning disabilities. Of the 33 students Carlson works with, six have been diagnosed with dyslexia.
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