to the Massachusetts Branch of The International Dyslexia Association (MABIDA). The International Dyslexia Association provides a forum where parents, educators, individuals with dyslexia and researchers share their knowledge about a disorder that affects up to 20 percent of the United States population. MABIDA provides parent roundtables, professional education seminars and other resources to increase public awareness and remediation of dyslexia.

• Dyslexia is the most common learning disability.
  
• It is a language-based learning disability that affects people with average to above average intelligence.
• There are many successful people with dyslexia. Here is a list of famous and successful people with dyslexia. They are proof that dyslexia need not limit an individual's future.