Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a learning disability that involves problems with reading due to difficulty with recognizing speech sounds and understanding how they connect with words and letters. Also called reading disability, dyslexia influences parts of the brain that handles language processing. 70-80% of people with awful reading skills are presumably dyslexic.… ...Read more
Dyslexia is a learning disability that involves problems with reading due to difficulty with recognizing speech sounds and understanding how they connect with words and letters.
Also called reading disability, dyslexia influences parts of the brain that handles language processing. 70-80% of people with awful reading skills are presumably dyslexic. 15-20% of the population, is affected by a language-based learning disorder. Dyslexia is the most prevalent of language-based learning disorder.
Virtually the same percentage of males and females have this disorder.
Symptoms of dyslexia
Symptoms of dyslexia can be hard to identify before your kid enters school, however, some early signs may point towards a problem.
Before school
Signs that a child may be susceptible to dyslexia include:
- Learning new words at a snail's pace (slowly)
- Late talking
- Difficulty forming words properly.
- Problem with playing rhyming games or understanding nursery rhymes.
- Reading below the normal level for age
- A difficulty with understanding what he/she hears.
- Inability to find the right word or answer to a question.
- Spelling difficulty
- The same symptoms still persist after school.
- Family history
- Early birth
- Child's exposure to drugs or infection that hinders brain development in the fetus.
