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What is Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is primarily associated with trouble reading but it can also affect writing, spelling and even speaking.

People with dyslexia can still understand complex ideas. Sometimes they just need more time to work through the information. They may also need a different way to process the information, such as listening to an audiobook instead of reading it.

People with dyslexia are often very creative. It’s unclear whether such creativity comes from thinking outside the box or from having a brain that’s “wired” a bit differently.

How Dyslexia affects development?
Children with dyslexia may have delayed speech development compared with other children of the same age, they may also have speech problems, such as not being able to pronounce long words properly, they may also have problems expressing themselves using spoken language, such as being unable to remember the right word to use, or putting together sentences incorrectly
and difficulty with, or little interest in, learning letters of the alphabet.

Young children with dyslexia can also have problems with "word attack" skills. This is the ability to make sense of unfamiliar words by looking for smaller words or collections of letters that a child has previously learnt.

For example, a child with good word attack skills may read the word "sunbathing" for the first time and gain a sense of the meaning of the word by breaking it down into "sun", "bath", and "ing".

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What is Aspersers?
Asperger syndrome is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people perceive the world and interact with others.
People with Asperger syndrome see, hear and feel the world differently to other people. If you have Asperger syndrome, you have it for life – it is not an illness or disease and cannot be ‘cured’.
Often people feel that Asperger syndrome is a fundamental aspect of their identity.
People with Asperger syndrome are of average or above average intelligence. They do not usually have the learning disabilities that many autistic people have, but they may have specific learning difficulties. They have fewer problems with speech but may still have difficulties with understanding and processing language.

How Aspersers affects development

Asperger syndrome children have difficulties with interpreting both verbal and non-verbal language like gestures or tone of voice. Many have a very literal understanding of language, and think people always mean exactly what they say.
People with Asperger syndrome usually have good language skills, but they may still find it hard to understand the expectations of others within conversations, perhaps repeating what the other person has just said or talking at length about their own interests.
People with Asperger syndrome often have difficulty 'reading' other people - recognising or understanding others’ feelings and intentions - and expressing their own emotions. This can make it very hard for them to navigate the social world.
They may find it hard to form friendships. Some may want to interact with other people and make friends, but may be unsure how to go about it.
The world can seem a very unpredictable and confusing place to people with Asperger syndrome, who often prefer to have a daily routine so that they know what is going to happen every day. They may want to always travel the same way to and from school or work, or eat exactly the same food for breakfast.

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What is Autism?
Autism is a lifelong disability which affects the social and communication centre of the brain.
Autism affects the way an individual relates to people, situations and the immediate environment.
Many individual's with Autism have difficulty processing everyday sensory information.
They can experience hyper(over) and hypo(under) sensitivity to sight, smells, touch, tastes ad sounds. There is no known cure, but there are many ways to help!

The term Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is used because Autism varies from person to person.
Around 25% of people with ASD will have an accompanying learning disability. Many individuals with ASD will have average or above average intelligence, they are likely to be diagnosed with ASD, high functioning Autism or Asperger's Syndrome.
Regardless of an individual’s level of functioning, all individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder will have problems in the areas of Social Communication, Social Skills and Social Imagination.

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) develop differently from other children. They also have challenges in interacting and communicating with others. These challenges can affect their development and learning.

How Autism affects development
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) develop at a different rate and don’t necessarily develop skills in the same order as typically developing children.

For example, a child with ASD might start to use a few single words around 12 months of age. He might not have the explosion of language that other children have, perhaps learning only a couple of new words each month. It might take him until he’s three years old, or older, to start combining these words together into short phrases.

Another child with ASD might be able to label her own body parts but might not be able to label body parts in a picture. Or she might be able to identify colours but not be able to sort according to colour.