She has criss crossed 12 towns in six days talking with communities, mums and dads, teachers, community workers about filling a widening gap in a problem largely forgotten she says by many.

She is advocating more awareness of the problem to back parents who are worried about their children.

"Its very difficult to get a diagnosis of dyslexia because they are average or below average, they fly under the radar, they have slipped through the gaps they don't have enough developmental issues to actually to come to some one's notice. They struggle when they don't need to," she said.

Ms Mullally who is a Sydney-based practitioner of dyslexia says there maybe up to two children in every class who are not bad enough to have received help, but there are signs and nobody has picked up on the child's issue.

"Teachers are in a difficult situation because when they are at university learning the business of teaching they don't actually learn anything about learning difficulties, so they don't know anything about dyslexia to identify or help these children'' she said speaking before a forum in Wellington.

But funding shortages in some schools and the lack of counsellors are also not helping find children who are having learning difficulties.

Dyslexics often struggle she says and are not bad enough to get help and often normally special education doesn't kick in until year 3, depending on school budget and resources. If children are missed in this time they struggle at high school.

On her tour of Narromine, Mudgee, Dubbo and Wellington she is promoting her online teaching course but also showing communities the early indicators.

"Children are cognitively developing their skills to the age of eight but for some children they don't develop these skills, they could be dyslexic," Ms Mullalley said.

There are some signs you can look for to identify the problem. From five you should be able to see if your child can decode sounds, comprehend and spell words she says.

Ms Mullally said dyslexia is genetic, so it's sometimes its hard to find, parents and grandparents can let schools know to give educators a chance to look into a children's talents.

"In special education there is at least one child that doesn't pick it up and it is usually the dyslexic child. Dyslexic children don't process sound and decode words like the majority of the population, they are extremely visual in their processing style or they struggle with the business of decoding and using phonics," she said

The Sydney practitioner says country mums have been especially forthcoming discussing their child's reading and writing difficulties.

"Country mums have inspired me to do this because they are very capable," she said.

She says some of the world's most famous people have stories for the dyslexic community. Entrepreneur Richard Branson, Stephen Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Kerry Packer.

It can be corrected and certainly be managed, teachers don't get the knowledge in the universities. So it's up to us to work together to manage our children's problems.