People with dyslexia may show strengths in the following areas:
- Creativity
- Visual skills (Being able to form mental images)
- Practical and problem solving skills
- Global thinking for strategies and problem solving (Being able to see the big picture)
- Lateral thinking skills (Solving problems by creative or indirect thinking)
- Visual-spatial awareness (An awareness of where objects are in space including in relation to their own body)
- Verbal communication skills
- High levels of motivation and persistence.