An expert, Dr Adrienne Tikolo has expressed concern over the low awareness of dyslexia among Nigerians, pointing out that about 90 percent of teachers do not know about the disorder, which makes it difficult for children to read and spell.

Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence. Different people are affected to varying degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, and writing words, “sounding out” words in the head, pronouncing words when reading aloud and understanding what one reads. Often these difficulties are first…

There are hundreds of thousands of dyslexic schoolchildren in Nigeria today subjected to ill treatment and stigmatisation largely due to ignorance and impatience of teachers and parents. Head, Education Desk, Iyabo Lawal, writes on the challenges of pupils with dyslexia. Alexander Akintoye is an adorable child. He is affable and precocious. But he is a…

Rising to overcome a medical condition called ‘Dyslexia’ and inspired by music, his environment and Nigerians’ colourful way of life, a new entrant into artwork, Abidemi Demuren, held his first art exhibition recently at Didi Museum....