Are dyslexic individuals potential communication designers?

If dyslexic individuals do have the ability to express themselves in different ways,particularly in the field of modern graphic design, would they be a favored group increating the extraordinary and outstanding ideas that are required in communicationdesign? Although they have some difficulties at school due to perception differences,would it be then an advantageous for communication design education? This thesis triesto find answers to those questions above, by examining primary school individuals. Inliterature there is not yet a remark pointing out the tendencies of dyslexics uponcommunication design. The study group consisted of 20 primary school dyslexicsbetween ages of 7-12 and 20 non-dyslexics serving as a control group. A jury with fourspecialists evaluated the drawings gathered from 40 participants. Even though we mightnot say surely that the dyslexics are the best possible candidates for communicationdesign education, based on the statistical results we have concluded that they should beamong the potential candidates for both general communication design education andfor more specific minor study areas such as and iconlsignage design. The use ofnavigational sing is 45% with dyslexics while it is only 5% in control participant whichis very important for communication design. Moreover the jury members find dyslexicindividuals drawings more creative.Keywords: Dyslexia, Creativity, Design Education, Communication Design,Information Design