Dyslexia : Is Dyslexia a Genetic Mutation?

Dyslexia is a genetic mutation that can be passed down from parent to child for many generations. Get facts about the hereditary qualities of dyslexia from a recognized scholar of dyslexia treatment in this free video on learning disabilities.

Expert: Dr. Diane Sawyer
Bio: Dr. Diane J. Sawyer is the holder of the Chair of Excellence in Dyslexic Studies and an internationally recognized scholar in the field of reading.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

[larissagarneau]

Thanks for making this video it helped me on my project In science 👍🏻

[StardustSky]

You know what this mean?
Its means we are mutants!

Im a bloody mutant! I am a Bloody Damn Mutant! this means Charles Xaviour would take me in. I HAVE A FREAKING MUTATED GENE!
Im bloody damn proud im a mutant!

Come together my Mutant brother and sisters. Unite in a war against the norm!

one of the fascinating things that my mutation allows me to di that i am extremely artistic!  

[zipjacketgamer]

You know what's funny I have no problems with my language dyslexia doesn't make it hard for me to understand language I can learn practically anything if you just show me but the medium that people use that is called reading I can't use it but I can still learn without it I'm not some kind of freak I'm a human being in my opinion dyslexia is another ethnicity of people that's what I think because if I or anyone that I know that is dyslexic has kids those kids have a high chance of being dyslexic like the parent that means that this is some kind of genetic thing which proves that it has to be like another race of people that looks like everyone else but mentally were different which means where different race of human that doesn't use reading to communicate we're more visual instead of reading so if that's the truth then stop saying it's a disability it's just another race of human that doesn't use reading so you're basically trying to teach another race of people that uses visual instead of reading you're trying to teach another race of people to be like you or no wonder it doesn't work or not the same race mentally we're not the same race then stop calling us retarded or stupid heck when I was 10 years old I just meant with watches and I put them back together again I would dismantle toys and clocks and reassemble them how it rewire my TV in my room and upgrade it and this was without anyone teaching me and I'm stupid the only thing I can't do is read very well that doesn't mean I can't learn

[abcstan]

firstly no one has identified a specific gene that can be attributed and designated as identifying dyslexia there are about 6 that are in the frame. Funny how she never mentions the which gene It is? Take it with a pinch of salt!

[DontHateAnyone]

it may be a mutation but my dyslexia is my curse and my gift i am different for i love my musical abliilities my abillity to draw and think in such a deeper more philosophical way i curse and thank god everyday for it

[HCOGGAN]

she makes it sound like the mutation happened when a dyslexic was born and every time it is a mutations fault, however the mutation probably happened a million years ago, or perhaps "normal" people are the mutants, but she does not accurately describe that the mutation a long long time ago has probably mutated on top of the mutation on top of another mutation,

[HCOGGAN]

and for that matter they haven't found a "gene" for dyslexia. witch means it could be inherited from half of both parents dna to become dyslexic. we just don't know - sincerilly dyslexic guy studying genetics