Info about Dyslexia
Symptoms of Dyslexia
Dyslexia is the most common learning disability. It causes problems with reading and other language skills. According to the International Dyslexia Association about 7% of people have dyslexia.
Dyslexia has a genetic origin so it is possible for children to inherit the condition. It is not uncommon for children with dyslexia to have a member of their immediate family with the condition. In fact, it is not unusual for two or more children in the same family to have dyslexia.
It might be difficult to know if a family member is dyslexic if the condition was never diagnosed. People that hated to go to school or dropped out to get a job may have been dyslexic. School can be very difficult and frustrating with the right help for this learning disability.
Reading, writing, and spelling are affected the most by dyslexia. It is possible for a person to have difficulty in only one of these areas. Some other people with dyslexia have difficulty in learning the spoken language. It is difficult for them to understand others or speak so that other understand them.
A person with dyslexia can suffer with emotional problems. Children who have this learning disability think that they cannot learn. They believe themselves to be stupid. According to specialists feeling this way puts children in danger of experiencing depression and failure.
The exact cause of dyslexia is not known. However, research has shown differences in the development and activity of the brain in people with dyslexia when compared to the normal population. Early signals of dyslexia include difficulty pronouncing words or learning to speak later that other children. Children with dyslexia may have trouble recognizing letters or connecting them to the proper sound when they are learning to read. It may also be difficult for them to learn and remember numbers, shapes, colors, and the days of the week.
Older children with dyslexia sometimes have trouble when they are studying a foreign language. They may read at a slow pace or they may not be able to remember what they read. They may not see and hear differences in words and letters.
Even though there is no cure for dyslexia, people who have the disability can still learn successfully. The key is finding the condition at as young an age as possible. A professional trained in the disability is required to diagnose the condition. Unless children receive the appropriate help early in their lives, young people that have difficulty with reading will have difficulty after they become an adult. The problem does not go away or fix itself. However, with special help in the early school years the children can grow up and have less difficulty when they are older.
There are educators that are specially trained to help dyslexic people with alternative ways to learn. There are some computer programs that can be very helpful and the use of recorded books in the place of print can also be a valuable learning tool. There are things that can be done at school such as providing help for note taking and giving an extended time frame to finish work.
Leonardo da Vinci was rumored to have had dyslexia, but he probably wrote backwards because he was left-handed and would not have smeared the ink this way. Leonardo da Vinci was unusually inventive, and he probably invented this new writing technique because of his left-handedness and not because he had dyslexia. The average person probably would have written that way because of dyslexia but owing to Leonardo da Vinci’s inventiveness and left-handedness, it is more likely that he invented an entirely new writing technique.