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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Dyslexia a word that sound strange, what it's ?

Now let open The Larousse Dictionary and read the definition:

dys·lex·i·a 
disˈleksēə/ 
noun 

1. a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence. 

Yes this is a cleaver definition but this not so specifics and telling you what really Dyslexia is.

First let me tell you a little story.  

John is a young boy, he just started primary school todays. He was so happy to find news friends and to see his class. The second days in school the teacher start teaching alphabetic letter, they all have the homework to know the alphabet. The next days in class John was ask by the teacher to tell her the alphabetic letter he wasn't able and all the other student start to laugh, but John did study. The teacher ask to see his parents and tell them that John need to study and stop doing the clown in class, but John didn't want to be like that. 

John grow up past some class and still hates write, but also he hate reading aloud in class. He's never been good with letter, or reading, and even he seems to have trouble to recognizes the words on page. School's never been his favorite place anyway. He often gets lows self-esteem, laugh at, and discouraged thinking that he's not good enough or smart like the other kids. But John always past his class and he's good in sport and math. He found that he had talent with calculus and equations.



But what everyone doesn't have realize : John, his parents, and his teachers is that John has Dysliexia.

So now let me be more specific and tell you What's Dyslexia ?

A dyslexic person is a person with a learning disability with processing words or numbers. There are several type of learning disabilities; dyslexia is one of them and the term used when people have difficulty learning to read, even they are smart people and motivated to learn.

N.B: Been Dyslexic isn't a disease. It's a condition that you are born with, and it often runs in families. People with it are not slows, stupid or lazy. Most of them have average or above-average intelligence, and they work very hard to overcome this learning problems. 

Now let talk about the signs of Dyslexia so no more children like John didn't know and think they are stupid all their life.

  • Learning to read - the child, despite having normal intelligence and receiving proper teaching and parental support, has difficulty learning to read.

  • Milestones reached later - the child learns to crawl, walk, talk, throw or catch things, ride a bicycle later than the majority of other kids.

  • Speech - apart from being slow to learn to speak, the child commonly mispronounces words, finds rhyming extremely challenging, and does not appear to distinguish between different word sounds.

  • Slow at learning sets of data - at school the child takes much longer than the other children to learn the letters of the alphabet and how they are pronounced. There may also be problems remembering the days of the week, months of the year, colors, and some arithmetic tables.

  • Coordination - the child may seem clumsier than his or her peers. Catching a ball may be difficult.

  • Left and right - the child commonly gets "left" and "right" mixed up.

  • Reversal - numbers and letters may be reversed without realizing.

  • Spelling - may not follow a pattern of progression seen in other children. The child may learn how to spell a word today, and completely forget the next day. One word may be spelt in a variety of ways on the same page.

  • Phonology problems - phonology refers to the speech sounds in a language. If a word has more than two syllables, phonology processing becomes much more difficult. For example, with the word "unfortunately" a person with dyslexia may be able to process the sounds "un" and "ly", but not the ones in between.

  • Concentration span - children with dyslexia commonly find it hard to concentrate for long, compared to other children. Many adults with dyslexia say this is because after a few minutes of non-stop struggling, the child is mentally exhausted. A higher number of children with dyslexia also have ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), compared to the rest of the population.

  • Sequencing ideas - when a person with dyslexia expresses a sequence of ideas, they may seem illogical for people without the condition.

  • Autoimmune conditions - people with dyslexia are more likely to develop immunological problems, such as hay fever, asthma, eczema, and other allergies.
But really what are the cause of Dyslexia ?

There still no real cause of it, you're just born with it or not.

Did there is a treatment to cure Dyslexia ?

No there is no cure to dyslexia but with proper care and education a dyslexic children can do big study and become whatever he/she want doctor, scientific,....

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