For a diagnosis based on your symptoms of dyslexia, the starting point is normally the teacher of the child. It is time and again the teacher who is the first to point out the problems, even though they don’t typically tell you that your child has dyslexia, a definition of Dyslexia is “difficulty with words or language”, and whilst difficulties don’t always mean dyslexia per se, the problems may lead you to start thinking about about testing.
The challenge of having a weak short term memory can affect organization and can be completely characteristic of having dyslexia. the result is that they have to read something eight to ten times for you to store what a phrase means. Reading words letter by letter as dyslexics do, becomes so slow that reading fluently seems impossible. Brain scanning shows that fluent reading for dyslexics requires the standard zones of the brain to be activated at a much higher level compared to typical non-dyslexic readers.
Softening down the white background with the use of special glasses or colour overlays can help. For dyslexics, the white background behind words can have this effect on their eyes the entire time.
Because of having dyslexia, a child may test poorly in other areas, but those areas are not symptoms of dyslexia. Six Million Brits are dyslexic. In the UK along, 750,000 children are dyslexic and 4% of children are severely dyslexic. Kids are losing your way out there in the world. Many times over a poor vocabulary is day after day wrongly attributed to dyslexia.
Since the teaching style time and again is not done in a way that registers in the child’s eyes, the difficulties faced by the children can impact negatively on the child’s behavior and self esteem. since dyslexia is only rarely diagnosed at the first signs, children time after time become targets of the “slow”, or “lazy” label prior to getting diagnosed and finally understand how their brain operates. “Your just end up feeling stupid” as one dyslexic explained.
Ironically, once a diagnosis of dyslexia is made, all the pressure can ease, as finally there is a reason for the difficulties. This can help lower stress and have a profound effect on the upbringing of a child form that moment.
Those with reading problems tend to need a more relaxing experience than the average reader because they use various neural pathways in the brain when decoding. whilst your child will eventually read and may even become a fantastic reader, they will still need extra time. get more information on the verbal symptoms of dyslexia by continuing to DrLindasBlog.com
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