For some reason I cannot read across the page but from what I have read makes sense to me Zsuy.

Suzy, dyslexia is just one type of learning disability. There are MANY types. Nearly all of us have some form to some degree. (I have forgotten the percentage.) The vast majority are probably never diagnosed. If it's relatively minor, most of us learn to compensate. For some people it's as easy as having a colored sheet of paper to move down the page under the line being read. Some people find that they can write better with pencil than with pen or with a certain color of ink or a gel pen instead of a ball point pen or a fountain pen. Some of us learn never to trust anything to memory and to read back to the person giving us information anything critical, such as phone number or address. Some of the interventions (like rolling clay into a "snake" and forming letters with the snake, tracing letters in a layer of sand on a tray or written on sandpaper) would be too "childish" at this point. How does she do when writing in cursive? There's likely to be a difference. You should certainly NOT feel bad that you didn't diagnose a problem. That's not your training. However, if a teacher had any training in learning disabilities, he/she should certainly have suspected a problem. However, that usually leads to "testing" which often leads to "labeling" a child. I always preferred to discuss the situation as "learning differently" (which is the situation), not "learning disability." As far as I know, a child must have at least average or above intelligence to be considered for programs of this type.
Sorry, that's probably WAY more than you want to know.