Dyslexia disability which impairs an individual’s reading writing, spelling and mathematical skills is considered a neurological problem and its development supposedly starts during gestation itself. During the first six months of gestation as the brain is growing, neurons which are cells responsible for conducting impulses are produced in the ventricular zone of the brain. These cells or neurons are attached to fibers and they travel to the cerebral cortex, the area responsible for determining language skills. The cerebral cortex is the language center of the brain and when the neurons reach the cortex they are hit by barriers and are forced to stop. They then get deposited in layers above neurons which have been previously been there. This is the normal process in non-dyslexic individuals. But, in dyslexics, the barriers have breaches which facilitate the easy entrance of neurons into the cerebral cortex and these cells or neurons leave behind clumps of nerve cells which are called ‘ectopias’. These ‘ectopias’ apparently hinder the ability of the brain to receive and send out certain messages and maybe one of the dyslexia causes.

This biological anomaly is responsible for dyslexics unable to recognize certain sounds. ‘Phonemes’ which are certain basic sounds are the building blocks of the alphabets and they help put words together. For the majority, an unfamiliar word can easily be sounded out because they can put the sounds together within a word and pronounce it. But, it becomes troublesome for dyslexic people and they have to be taught in very specific manners so as to make learning easier for them.