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Dyslexia Information: Symptoms, Testing, Treatment, Cause, Child History

Definition of Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read. These individuals typically read at levels significantly lower than expected despite having normal intelligence. Although the disorder varies from person to person, common characteristics among people with dyslexia are difficulty with phonological processing (the manipulation of sounds) and/or rapid visual-verbal responding.

Cause of Dyslexia

The causes for dyslexia are neurobiological and genetic. Individuals inherit the genetic links for dyslexia. Chances are that one of the child's parents, grandparents, aunts, or uncles is dyslexic.

Dyslexia Test

Dyslexia cannot be officially diagnosed using one single test. That's because dyslexia can be mild, moderate, severe, or profound. Comprehensive tests for Dyslexia look at the whole person and examine the root cause of any learning difficulties in the light of research into dyslexia and its causes. Screening tests are designed to be used on very large numbers of students, to narrow down the group who might need a more thorough test for possible dyslexia. A Dyslexia Testing Specialist must have enough evidence of dyslexia ahead of time to justify putting a child through the testing process.

Adult Dyslexia

Dyslexia is often thought of as a problem of childhood. In fact it is a lifelong condition. It will not go away if it is ignored. If Dyslexia is not identified and if specific appropriate help is not provided the ill effects can last into adulthood. The result may well be a lifetime of underachievement and frustration. Dyslexia is not as easy to identify in adults as it is in children because adults will usually have developed ways of coping with or hiding a reading problem.

Dyslexia in Child

Kids with dyslexia have a brain that works differently to process language. They have problems translating language to thought (in listening or reading) and thought to language (in writing or speaking). If you suspect your child may have dyslexia, do not wait! Have your child evaluated. Your child should not have to fail for a couple years before being able to getting the right kind of help.

Dyslexia Treatment and Overcoming

No, dyslexia is not a disease. There is no cure. With proper diagnosis, appropriate instruction, hard work and support from family, teachers, friends, and others, individuals who are dyslexic can succeed in school and later as working adults.

Type of Dyslexia

1. Dyseidesia - A minimal dysfunction or differential function in either the angular gyrus, Wernicke's area, or the motor cortex will result in characteristic reading, writing, and spelling problems.
2. Dysphonesia is the term used for the individual with a minimal dysfunction involving Wernicke's area. These individuals suffer from an impairment of phonetic ability to decode unknown words. The individual either knows a word (as a part of his/her sight-word vocabulary) or does not.
3. Dysnemkinesia - it involves minimal dysfunction of the area of the motor cortex involved in letter formation. These individuals can be characteristically distinguished by their frequent letter reversals, e.g., d for b, as in "doy" for boy.

Dyslexia Research

The NINDS and other institutes of the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Mental Health, conduct research on dyslexia. Current research avenues focus on developing techniques to diagnose and treat dyslexia and other learning disabilities, increasing the understanding of the biological basis of learning disabilities, and exploring the relationship between neurophysiological processes and cognitive functions with regard to reading ability. About 10% of the population have some form of dyslexia. About 4% are severely dyslexic, including some 375,000 schoolchildren.

Learning Disorders

Dyslexia - Dyslexia Symptom
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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hi i have had dislexia since i was very young yet i was put down and was told i was slow which did not help me even now when people bully me and put me down usaly verbaly just to hurt me and it still hurts today as it feels like the very first time every time someone verbaly bullys me. Also up to the age of 3 years of age i was deaf and doumb. ---steve.

I have a son who is 9 years old with dyslexia, it's been very hard on him at school. Because of his reading and writing the kids tease him and the teachers think that his not trying hard enough, every morning its a struggle for him to go to school, he'll cry and say the kids are going to laugh at me again. - mariah dorcy

A lot of research and positive action is being conducted to help people, especially children, work around dyslexia so that they can function normally at school. However, not everyone sees dyslexia as a harmful thing. - flybird

Whenever I read aloud, I don't understant a single thing!
And when I read in my head, most of the time I have to re-read about 3 times before I get the general meaning of it. Although... I can ready quite fast (but can't understand fully on the first try). Could it still be dyslexia? - jake

Bookmark the site--lots of quality information - Dolly

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