Dr JiaJia may has Dylexia sign 

Singlish 14: Deliciously Dyslexic (Dyslexia)

What is Dyslexia?

The word dyslexia comes from Greek – dys meaning difficulty and lex meaning speak, hence dyslexia refers to difficulty with words or languages.  It is a learning disability that affects the way a child learns to read, write and spell. This often, in turn, shows up in the child’s inability to cope with school work.

What causes it?

The exact cause of dyslexia is unclear but scientists know for sure that it has to do with how the brain is wired, and that it runs in families.  Dyslexia affects males and females nearly equally, and people from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds as well.

Dyslexia describes a different kind of mind and has nothing to do with intelligence, and can carry surprising talents despite its well-known disadvantages.

“Dyslexics are over-represented in the top ranks of people who are unusually insightful, who bring a new perspective, who think out of the box," -Sally Shaywitz, a leading dyslexia neuro-scientist at Yale University, USA. 

John F Kennedy, Lee Kuan Yew, Richard Branson, William Hewlett (co-founder of Hewlett Packard), Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Orlando Bloom and Tom Cruise  are among the leading politicians, entrepreneurs, scientists and artistes who have turned the deficits of dyslexia into advantages..  --- read more ---