Dyslexia isn’t cheap

Published June 21, 2019 3:00am ET



Caragan Olles started a charity when she was 10 years old, but that’s not the only way she’s different from the average child her age.

Olles has dyslexia. She struggled with math and reading assignments in elementary school, but teachers said she could understand higher-level concepts. “That’s what you get with dyslexia,” her mother told the Green Bay Press Gazette. “You get this weird combination of intelligence but not performing well in school functions.”

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