India Gate lit up in Red to spread awareness for Dyslexia in October Yet another October has gone by. Until a few years ago, October was for me the month when winter knocks at your door, early mornings have that pleasant chill and air pollution starts to hurt. But now, as the mother of a neurodiverse child, October is the month of walks and talks and posters and pamphlets to spread awareness of dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very specific learning disability that makes reading and understanding written words difficult. It is easier to spot it in children before they learn to mask and hide the problem. Dyslexic children struggle to connect letters to sounds, they have trouble spotting rhyming words, and they flip words around. Some of them cannot easily comprehend what they are reading, they have a poor vocabulary, and they jumble the beginning, end and middle during storytelling. Dyslexic kids may freeze with multiple instructions or actions with multiple steps because it is tough to keep tra...