This paper is concerning students' with reading and writing difficulties and dyslexia. This paper clarifies the difference between reading and writing difficulties and dyslexia. The essay also gives an insight into dyslexia in an historical perspective. The purpose of the paper is to find out if teachers believe that students with a diagnosis of dyslexia may be more or different help than students with other reading and writing difficulties. By answering this question, I conducted a survey study in two schools in two municipalities. The survey aims to find out if teachers out of schools think that students with a diagnosis may be the right kind of help in their teaching. Teachers at each school feel different. One school believes that students with a diagnosis may be more help than other students with other difficulties. While teachers at the other schools felt that pupils with a diagnosis must not be more help than students in other writing difficulties.