Dyslexia Is More Common Than You Think

Reading challenges are all around us. Sometimes we (or people we know) struggle with a reading disability and aren’t even aware of it.

Just how common is dyslexia?

Dyslexia is one of the most prevalent reading challenges there is. About 15-20% of the global population has dyslexia, including an estimated 8.5 million Canadians and 43.5 million Americans. It affects males and females at similar rates, as well as people across different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Online Reading Tutor doesn’t just work with people who have dyslexia: we help anyone who finds reading challenging, at any age, in any country.

Dyslexia rarely travels alone

Other reading disorders, like auditory processing and visual processing challenges, are also common. Dyslexia frequently overlaps with other learning and emotional differences too: conditions like ADHD and ADD show up alongside dyslexia at a higher rate than chance would predict.

That’s part of why Online Reading Tutor works the way it does: as a one-stop shop where families can understand the underlying causes of a child’s struggles and get the right kind of help to work through them.

Why one-on-one, on-demand support matters

Online Reading Tutor’s private, one-on-one tutoring sessions and online practice sessions make sure each learner gets the individual attention they need, on a schedule that works for their family. “I am blown away with the entire program,” one parent wrote in her testimonial, describing how glad she was that she’d chosen Online Reading Tutor to help her son.

When it comes to a reading disability, earlier diagnosis and intervention lead to better outcomes.

Start with a free screener

For many families, the hardest part is simply recognizing that a problem exists in the first place. Our free dyslexia assessment helps identify the root cause of a learner’s reading challenges. It’s the first stage every Online Reading Tutor learner completes, takes less than 30 minutes, and tests reading and decoding skills through a series of exercises, producing a detailed report on exactly where the specific struggles lie.

Built on the science of reading

Our Orton-Gillingham based training model focuses on the five areas the National Reading Panel identifies as essential to strong reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. As learners strengthen these five areas, reading becomes easier and far less stressful, as one longtime Online Reading Tutor parent, Julia, describes in her own testimonial.

We also know that not every family can afford thousands of dollars for a formal diagnosis and high-cost tutoring, nor should they have to. That’s why we’ve built Online Reading Tutor to stay affordable and accessible at every income level.

Take our free 10-minute screener to find out where your child stands.