It is not a disease - dyslexia

Dyslexia is term that describes term of disorder that involves difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters and other symbols and is not affecting general intelligence. It may cause by specific reading disability due to defect in the brain processing of graphic symbols. It affect the way brain process written material. It can be characterize by difficulties in word recognition and spelling including decoding. It is different from reading retardation which may reflect mental retardation or cultural deprivation. It is common in learning disability and 8% of students with learning disabilities have dyslexia.

Symptoms of dyslexia

• ·         The child might talk later than most children
• ·         The child may have difficulty in pronouncing words
• ·         He/she can be slow to add vocabulary words and difficult in recalling the words.
• ·         He/she can be slow to learn the connection between letters and sounds
• ·         Sometimes he/she might read at lower level than expected
• ·         Have problem with words problems in math
• ·         He/she can avoid reading loud
• ·         Avoid writing and
• ·         Slow or poor recall of facts.
• ·         Spelling that is unpredictable and inconsistent
• ·         The child confuses the order of letters in words
• ·         The visual disturbances when reading
• ·         The child struggle to learn sequences such as days of the week or alphabet

What causes dyslexia?

Dyslexia it can be linked to genes that control how the brain develops and appear be inherited conditions and is within the family. It can appear to affects parts of the brain concerned with language, interfering with ability to convert written letters and words into speech.

The small minority of people with dyslexia acquired the condition after were born and most common causes of acquired dyslexia is brain injuries, stroke and other type of trauma. Humans have the ability to understand spoken language it is something the brain acquires easily and naturally from a very early age. This can be justifying during early childhood like 3years we can utter and understand relatively complicated sentences.

Treatment of dyslexia

The people who have such child must know that dyslexia is not a disease and we live in a society where reading and writing are integral parts of everyday life and interventions that help people with dyslexia are aimed at improving their coping skills. There is no cure for dyslexia but a wide range of specialist and well-targeted interventions can help children and adults improve their reading and writing skills.

The majority of children diagnosed with dyslexia will only miss few hours of their schooling each week to receive specialist education support which consist of one on one teaching group classes. The sooner a child is diagnosed and receives support the more likely he or she will achieve long term improvements. The psychologist testing helps the teacher develop a better targeted teaching program for the child. The trained teacher who is trained in helping children with dyslexia will use a range of techniques to improve the child reading skills. Here are famous people Steve Jobs, Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise.