What are the real statistics?

Okay, just in the past two weeks, I have had conversations with parents of two dyslexic kids who have not been able to get an accurate diagnosis and one first grade teacher who feels certain that one of her students is dyslexic but can not get the school to test and diagnosis him.  I wonder just how many people there are out there that have struggled with dyslexia and yet don't know it or can not get an accurate diagnosis.  With all the advances in medicine and technology, why is it so difficult to get a diagnosis for dyslexia?  The diagnosis alone made such a huge difference for my family.  Just to be able to see the beast for what it is instead of stabbing in the dark revolutionized our life.  How many more people out there would be set on the road to freedom just by knowing that there is a name for what they are struggling with and they are not alone in this struggle?  I just do not understand why a diagnosis is so hard to come by?

Learning to be an advocate.

God works in mysterious ways.  Today I went to a Monthly Parent's Breakfast at my kid's school.  These are usually pretty routine boring events.  Well today they were encouraging parents to ride a bus to Austin, Texas next Wednesday for a Texas Charter School Rally.  There was a woman there from Portland, Oregon who works for an organization that trains people on how to become advocates for special causes.  How cool is that, and I sat right next to her.  I expressed to her my desire to start a Dyslexia Awareness Campaign and she informed me that they were going to start having meetings at this school to train parents on how to become advocates for charter schools.  So there you go.  I will be getting trained on how to become a advocate for charter schools, yet I will be able to apply the same principles to my Dyslexia Awareness Campaign.  Like I said God works in mysterious ways.  I am excited....