ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to take a very different perspective on dyslexia, moving away from a deficit theory, that is the perception of disadvantage and remediation, and towards a concept of advantage, talents and gifts. H. Gardner, famed for his theory of multiple intelligences, also suggests that the present system of education really only values and rewards abilities in linguistic and logical mathematical intelligences. Helping children to understand and accept their different ways of learning and information processing allows them to get better at 'being dyslexic', by encouraging them to learn more about dyslexia and what it means to themselves and others. Jackie Stewart clearly had resilience in bucket loads, which is the ability to 'bounce back' from adversity and setbacks. Inevitably there are critics of the 'two mind theory', such as I. Zenhausern, cited by Mortimore, who hypothesised that the contributions of both hemispheres to information processing were so great that it is impossible to differentiate between the two.
