Empowering Minds, Overcoming Dyslexia Together.

Dyslexic Learners

Worried your child is not
coping with academics?

Dyslexic Learners

Concerned your child
can't read ?

Dyslexic Learners

Is your child struggling
with math ?

What is Dyslexia?

What is different from Specific Learning Disability?

Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that may affect 1 in 5 school going children in any given classroom . Dyslexia is a reading difficulty. Dyslexia is an umbrella term that may include difficulties with Reading , Writing and Math.

Does your child have dyslexia?

Does your child struggle to read and write? Mixing letters and words doesn't feel right? Slow reading, spelling woes—signs to see? Reading feels tough year after year. Dyslexia might be in the way. Early support can set them free!

Are you one with dyslexia?

Do words dance and shift around? Do letters jump or seem to hide? Letters swap, but meaning's unfound? Reading feels like a daily fight, Yet your mind shines bold and bright. Dyslexia is a different light! It is not just a delay!

Do you teach dyslexic students?

Do you teach dyslexic students with patience and care, helping minds grow everywhere? Letters may shift, words may stray, but their brilliance finds a way. With the right support and guide, their confidence will soar with pride!

Experience of
18+ years

How dyslexia affects learning:

Individuals with dyslexia struggle with reading. Writing, spelling, comprehension and writing fluency and mathematical calculations despite having average to above average intelligence .

What is Specific Learning Disability (SLD)? Is it different from Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a Specific Learning Disability . Dyslexia causes difficulties in reading& writing , which primary is due to deficit of phonological processing ability . Phonological processing ability is the ability to manipulate sounds in words.

Specific Learning Difficulties is often characterized by difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition , spelling and decoding commonly known as DYSLEXIA.

Specific Learning Disability ( e.g Dyslexia ) impacts specific cognitive processes related to language processing not due to intellectual disability or any kind of sensory impairment.

What are the different types of Specific Learning Disabilities?

While the exact meaning of Dyslexia means difficulty with reading, difficulty with writing is known as Dysgraphia and difficulty with mathematical concepts and calculations is known as Dyscalculia. An individual with Specific learning Difficulty may have any one kind of difficulty or any combination of these difficulty/and or difficulties listed above. Every learner with dyslexia may have a different profile.

Identifiable features of Dyslexia

  • Difficulty with rhyming ability
  • Slow speech development
  • Likes listening to stories but shows no interest in letters and words
  • Muddles up words
  • Forgets names of friends
  • Confusion of directional words
  • Family history of reading difficulty
  • Sequencing problem

Identifiable features of Dyscalculia

  • Struggle with mental math
  • Trouble relating numbers to objects
  • Difficulty spotting patterns
  • Persistent math related difficulties
  • Lack of intuitive understanding of number concepts
  • Math anxiety

Identifiable features of Dysgraphia

  • Handwriting is unclear & inconsistent
  • Handwriting with different slants
  • Letters of different shapes
  • Mixing up of upper case & lower case letters
  • Mixing up jointed and print letters
  • Illegible writing

Dyslexia is a Hidden Disability

Dyslexia is a Hidden Disability as it does not have any obvious physical features of disability. While dyslexic individual may appear verbally proficient they may lack skills top perform well in academics such as reading etc . It is visible in the impact it has on reading or and writing skills etc . It can also have less visible impact on information processing and working memory .

This impacts the amount of information that someone can remember and the speed with which they can recall and access information already stored in brain .

In adults difficulties encountered in reading, writing and spelling may be hidden many may have coping strategies to deal with their difficulties but these skills may require more effort and time than the general expected ones . Avoidance may also help to camouflage the challenges .

Dr. Arundhati Sarkar
Director - ADAK

About Us

Anjali Dyslexia Association Kolkata - ADAK

Dr Arundhati Sarkar is the Founder-Director of Anjali Dyslexia Association Kolkata & Anjali Educational. She was the Former Director, Manochetna Academic and Research Centre, a wing of Manovikas Kendra ( joined at the very inception of the unit in 2012)

  • Academic qualifications : Ph.D , Masters in Education

  • Professionally qualified as a practitioner in the field of Learning Difficulties/ Disabilities from UK

  • Involved in many Literacy Programmes in the capacity of advisor for educational strategies and teacher empowerment