Affiliations: Department of Music and Performing Arts, Yildiz
Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: muzaffercorlu@gmail.com | Department of Communication Design, Yildiz Technical
University, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: oozcan@yildiz.edu.tr | Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty
of Medicine, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail:
ukorkmazlar@gmail.com
Abstract: If dyslexic individuals have the ability to express themselves in
different ways, particularly in the field of modern graphic design, would they
be a favoured group in creating the extraordinary and outstanding ideas that
are required in communication design? The study group consisted of 20 primary
school dyslexics between ages of 7–12 and 20 non-dyslexics serving as a
control group. A jury with four specialists evaluated the drawings gathered
from the 40 participants. Even though we might not say surely that the
dyslexics are the best possible candidates for communication design education,
based on the statistical results we have concluded that they should be among
the potential candidates for both general communication design education and
for more specific minor study areas such as icon design.
Keywords: Dyslexia, creativity, design education, communication design, information design
