<p>Good advice Geek_Mom. We were told quite the opposite of Mitdu. We were told that more often than not dyslexics have high IQs if there are no other issues. In fact, we were told that often that IQ vs. performance discrepancy is what leads to being tested for dyslexia. It also runs in families (CardinalFang’s post). In my son’s case it was discovered when he was 6 and scored 99th percentile on a CAT test in math skills and 9th percentile in the reading skills portion. We later discovered that he score the highest of our family on IQ. As to toadstool’s comment I think it is never a good idea to make a generalization about one specific instance.</p>