Can anyone define what dyslexia is and what are the symptoms?

by Symptom Advice on March 8, 2011

Dyslexia is a condition in which you have a hard time reading or writing because of sensory problems. Usually the person will switch letters around or add letters that aren't there. For example in the classic joke about dyslexia… "I put the sexy in dyslexia."
People with dyslexia generally don't have a lower level of intelligence than anyone else, it's just a mind trick in a sense.
Common symptoms are difficulty with speaking, having excessive spelling errors, reversing letters in words, difficulty following directions, confusion with things such as left/right, and difficulty with things like memorizing songs or math concepts. There are various other things, also.

you see things really funny kidda backwards and it makes reading and math, the like hard

Dyslexia symptoms are- seeing symbols differently from how the majority of people see them. Perceptual distortion.
[Symbols- all formal language can be subject, e.g. letters, numbers, codes. And any formation of them, e.g. words, sentences, sign posts, maths, labels, text, etc.]

Imagine the help a blind person needs – a dyslexic needs the same help, because their perception process is not projecting to the brain the image that the eye sees.

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Has a family member just been diagnosed?

If you would like further ideas, then please contact me, as I would be happy to discuss things with you.

Aber
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Dyslexia is a learning disability. People with dyslexia usually have trouble reading or doing math problems. Letters and numbers usually appear backwards or in a different place then they really are. (For example: 6 sometimes looks like 9 or M looks like N.) Symptoms range differently for different people. Young kids with dyslexia may have delayed speech (start talking really late around 1, 2, 3 years or older) , may pronounch words different (aminal for animal, hekalopter for helicopter, bisghetti for spaghetti, mazageen for magazine and so on)
Older people may have symptoms like:
Difficulty organizing, trouble with directional phrases (left-right, up-down, North-south) or trouble reading maps, Trouble memorizing addition and subtraction tables, and so on.

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