The Dyslexic Advantage Quotes

“or logical chains of reasoning. Dyslexic brains store information like murals or stained glass, connect ideas like spiderwebs or hyperlinks, and move from one thought to another like ripples spreading over a pond.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“As we’ll describe throughout this book, dyslexic processing also predisposes individuals to important abilities in many mental functions, including: • three-dimensional spatial reasoning and mechanical ability • the ability to perceive relationships like analogies, metaphors, paradoxes, similarities, differences, implications, gaps, and imbalances • the ability to remember important personal experiences”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“Usually, the student’s own response to a particular educational setting is the best guide to the quality of its fit. In good-fitting environments, children with dyslexia are challenged, but the challenges are matched to their individual needs, abilities, and states of development, and they’re increased one small step at a time so that goals remain obtainable.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“given situation or idea; multidimensionality of perspective; the ability to see new, unusual, or distant connections; inferential reasoning and ambiguity detection; the ability to recombine things in novel ways and a general inventiveness; and greater mindfulness and intentionality during tasks that others take for granted.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“Dr. Casanova cited as often being particularly hard for individuals with dyslexia is phonological processing, which, as we described in the last chapter, involves distinguishing highly similar sounds.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“Because we first recognized dyslexia as a learning disorder rather than a learning or processing style, we’ve paid little attention to whether dyslexic processing might also create talents and abilities.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“Early in life, many dyslexic children with prominent M-strengths seem naturally drawn to engage in highly spatial tasks. In a survey of children from our practice (ages seven to fifteen), we found that children with dyslexia engaged in building projects—everything from LEGOs and K’NEX to small models to massive outdoor landscaping and construction projects—at nearly twice the rate of their nondyslexic peers.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“While M-strengths receive little emphasis or nurturing in most school curricula, they play an essential role in many adult occupations. Designers, mechanics, engineers, surgeons, radiologists, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, builders, skilled artisans, dentists, orthodontists, architects, chemists, physicists, astronomers, drivers of trucks, buses, and taxis, and computer specialists (especially in areas like networking, program and systems architecture, and graphics) all rely on M-strengths for much of what they do.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“Next time you run across an unusually good designer, landscaper, mechanic, electrician, carpenter, plumber, radiologist, surgeon, orthodontist, small business owner, computer software or graphics designer, computer networker, photographer, artist, boat captain, airplane pilot, or skilled member of any of the dozens of “dyslexia-rich” fields we’ll discuss in this book, ask if that person or anyone in his or her immediate family is dyslexic or had trouble learning to read, write, or spell.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

“Next time you run across an unusually good designer, landscaper, mechanic, electrician, carpenter, plumber, radiologist, surgeon, orthodontist, small business owner, computer software or graphics designer, computer networker, photographer, artist, boat captain, airplane pilot, or skilled member of any of the dozens of “dyslexia-rich” fields we’ll discuss in this book, ask if that person or anyone in his or her immediate family is dyslexic or had trouble learning to read, write, or spell. We’ll bet you dollars for dimes that person will say yes—the connection is just that strong. In fact, many of the most important and perceptive experts in the field of dyslexia have remarked on the link they’ve seen between dyslexia and talent.”
― Brock L. Eide, The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain