Get a Free Trial of The Learning Success System This question of what dyslexia is has been a debate for over 200 years. Seriously! In the 1800’s it was first called “word blindness”. In 1877 German Neurologist, Adolf Kussmaul, discovered that it was not an intelligence issue. Dyslexics are just as intelligent and sometimes more intelligent than average. Instead, it was a specific learning disability that only affected certain areas of learning. A decade later, in 1887, the term dyslexia...Read more