My daughter is spending eight weeks visiting Nicaragua. The first three weeks are in a village with a host family. A child she met in the village “is going to repeat first grade for the third time” according to my daughter. My daughter is majoring in Spanish, but has no training in diagnosing learning disabilities. Is there a very simple set of guidelines I could discuss with her over the phone that will help her generally determine what the child’s disability is? Needless to say the village is extremely poor and so resources to help the child are very limited.

My family is based in Denver, Colorado but are currently living as expats in Europe. I am a licensed elementary teacher with a masters degree in reading instruction and have some concerns for my son. He is 7 years old and demonstrating signs of dyslexia. We are making our home leave this summer to the States, in the Denver region, and I am wanting to have him screened and tested. Any referrals for ASHA-accredited psychologists for the Denver/Boulder area would be greatly appreciated!

Hello. I just wanted some help and support. I am dyslexic but I can't help but want to write books but because my mind just gets sidetracked and I find it hard to concentrate. It is really hard. At the moment I'm writing a book called Antonio. I've only written a chapter but my spelling and grammar is bad. I just can't get out the story in my head onto paper. There was an agency in America who wanted to sign me for my book, but they wanted 20% of whatever I earned. I didn't know if this was right, so I didn't sign. I can't stop daydreaming and going into my own world and I can't talk out loud to people either. I find it hard and I avoid phoning people. I just text. Is there any help out there for me? I've heard you can put different color shades in glasses but does it work? My confidence and self-esteem is so low. I really want to be an author because I need to get my ideas out. It’s like there is a brick wall and I need help breaking it down. I live in England. Is there any help in my area?

I am from India. I have been told that I am a dyslexic student. Now I have completed my secondary and senior secondary education by availing extra 1 hour time. Now for my higher studies in Institute of Chartered Accountancy of India, I have applied for time concessions. But they asked me to furnish the document stating whether the disability is of permanent nature and to specify the nature and extend (in terms of percentage) of the disability. I would like to know whether the % of dyslexia can be assessed and who can assess it?