Dyslexia Facts

[Timothy Gangwer]

Facts on Dyslexia

• 90 million adults have literacy skills below the sixth-grade level (Dept. of Labor, 1992)
• 40 million have below third grade level reading ability
• 75% of unemployed
• 33% of mothers receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children
• 85% of juveniles appearing in court
• 60-75% of prison inmates
• 40% of minority youth
• 45% of people in the workforce
• 11% of professional workforce
• 30% of semi-skilled and unskilled workers
• 80% having learning disabilities
• 30 million adults usually never diagnosed
• 15-20% of the population has a reading disability
• 12-15% of overall population have some form of dyslexia
• Not all are diagnosed
• Of students with specific learning disabilities who receive special education services, 70-80% have deficits in reading. Dyslexia is the most common cause of reading, writing and spelling difficulties.
• NAEP, 1997 report—below grade level readers
• • 40% of fourth graders
  • 30% of eighth graders
  • 25% of twelfth graders
  • 69% of black fourth graders (4.5 million students)
  • 64% of Hispanic fourth graders (3.3 million students)
  • 33% of all public school student drop out before finishing high school (Jordan, 1989)
    

Workplace of the future requires literacy

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