Common Strengths

Although their unique brain architecture and “unusual wiring” make reading, writing, and spelling difficult, most people with dyslexia have gifts in areas controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain. The right side controls:

• artistic skill
• athletic ability
• musical ability
• mechanical ability
• people skills
• 3-D visual-spatial skills
• vivid imagination
• intuition
• creative, global thinking
• curiosity

Good Careers for Dyslexics

You'll find people with dyslexia in every field. However, many excel and become “super stars” in the following fields on this graphic.