i think my mom has dyslexia because whenever i asked her with my homework she couldnt answer me so evenuatlly i stopped asking her and tonight i asked her to help me study for my drivers ed state test and when she was reading the questions; she kept stuttering over the words and reading too fast and kept asking me wat words were like "permissible" and "merge" were. it's like that with all my homework; she cant help with math cuz she cant do simple addition & subtraction (when we go to the bank or adds something she'll get her caculator instead of adding it in her head) or she cant help with english because she doesnt understand it and she cant spell the simplest words like "because" or "holding" & she doesnt know how to use the correct tense of words like run and ran…she'll say "runned"

could she be dyslexic?

It is entirely possibly your mother has dyslexia, and if not picked up as a child she would have slipped through the education system.

My mother could not read or write, she learnt to read around 40. It turns out she had dyslexia, as does my daughter and I. My daughter and I also have dyscalculia (maths) and my daughter has dysgraphia (writing). I was 14 when I learnt to read, and I was teased fairly badly because of it.

My poor mother was embarrassed (I was mortified) when I was accused of forging an absent note for school, dad made mum write a copy of the note, in front of the headmaster to prove I did not forge the note. a bit late after I had got detention. Sadly I was mad at mum for days, if she was alive today I would apologize, as I did not know she or I had dyslexia.

The links below explain what dyslexia is, the top link is the signs and symptoms of dyslexia, the next shows what dyslexics see.

Your mother can learn to read if she is given the encouragement, support and patience to do so. What ever the cause please encourage her to get some help, so she is very capable of learning to read, what ever her age.

If you want any tips on how to help her please send me an email.

Go to my free site, geocities.com/carjug , and force your mom to read the Tongue Twisters and the first five or so poems, all the way to Casey at the Bat. If she has a miracle cure and starts having a lot of fun , then she has a reading problem that is not dyslexia. Not likely, but worth a shot, and you will have to hog-tie her to get her to do it!
does she read aloud? This is a tell-tale symptom of dyslexia.
beingdyslexic.co.uk
Google Sally Shaywitz and Brain, limit the search to images.
Books on tape. Library. just do It.