For reasons that are still unclear, boys are two to three times more likely to be dyslexic than girls. Furthermore, given that schools aren’t great at identifying these issues—as of 2013, less than 20 percent of students that researchers identified as having reading impairment were categorized as “learning disabled” by their schools—boys are probably not receiving help with their reading problems as they move through the education system. Does that mean we’re failing our boys in school? Unfortunately, maybe.
