What is Dyslexia?

dys·lex·i·a (dhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/ibreve.gifs-lhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/ebreve.gifkhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/prime.gifshttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/emacr.gif-http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/schwa.gif)n. A learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words.

Many people have it but they wont admit it . They have hard time to read and write as well ...

I think I have it.

ohh i took this in psychology!

i forgot what it is :think:

my friend's brother has it, its when the person can't read properly the words look muddled up infront of him.

It's too sad when you hear perfectly normal students excusing their failure by saying they're suffering from dyslexia.

What is Dyslexia?

It is an idiopathic condition (cause of it is unclear) characterised by learning disability (reading & writing), normally it should be diagnosed early during the primary school age

Many children who suffer from an ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) do have dyslexia

Genetics may play a role in the etiology

Cognitive behavioural therapy is effective

I thought it was difficulty using simple math! At least that how they were looking at them in the UK!

I might be wrong though!

Thanks for clearing it up

And how are these people helped? Cuz in Uni i see many posters asking ppl who have dyslexia to inform about it so that they can help them

As everything in this world, the best initial managment is the recognition of the problem. imagine a child having this problem then parents or school teachers do not recognise this...the result is :are you stupid, then bitting???

I have no knowlage about the therapy, but this article may help:


Difficulty Attaching Speech Sounds To Letters And Letter Sequences.

The origin of the problem for most students who have a specific reading disability is difficulty in attaching speech sounds to letters and letter sequences. This difficulty delays the process of attaining the alphabetic principle, which is the realization that the constituent sounds of speech (the individual sounds that make up words) map onto letters of the alphabet. This difficulty in mapping speech sounds to letters makes it very difficult for a reader to use word recognition strategies like sounding out letters and then blending the letter sounds to make a word as a procedure for identifying unfamiliar words.



Treatment For Dyslexia.

Given this description, treatment plans for students who have a specific reading disability should follow a sequence. The first intervention that should be tried, particularly with young children, involves systematically teaching word decoding skills. These are generally called phonics-based intervention approaches. There are many variants of phonics-based approaches and no research indicating that one approach is superior to another.



Phonics Based Interventions. The impact of phonics-based interventions should be carefully monitored. If they are going to have a positive impact, that impact can generally be seen within six months. Phonics-based interventions should not be continued for longer than a year if there is little or no evidence that the student is reducing the gap between the student's reading performance and the reading performance of age peers. The difficulty with phonics-based interventions is that students develop the habit of sounding out virtually every word they read. This makes reading painfully slow and makes it very difficult to read for comprehension without repeated re-readings.

Continued use of phonics-based interventions in the absence of evidence of positive impact can, over extended time, do more harm than good. This discourages the development of a sight vocabulary and it results in the development of a habit that slows down reading time and has a deleterious impact on reading comprehension.


Building Word Recognition Skills, An Alternative Intervention To Continued Use Of Phonics. The alternative to continued use of phonics is the use of techniques that train students to rapidly and accurately identify words. Building word recognition skills means increasing the number of words that a student can recognize effortlessly and without thought. Words that can be recognized effortlessly and without thought are words that that student can recognize "automatically".

The logic behind building automatic word recognition skills is based on the idea that words that are recognized by thinking about them makes reading a laborious process.

This can cause increasingly greater difficulties as a student moves into junior and senior high school where the reading load in subject matter areas such as science, math and social studies greatly increases. If word recognition for a large number of words can be made "automatic", then reading will be easier and a student will be more likely to keep up with peers as reading load increases. A reader with a large sight vocabulary will be able to instantly identify words without having to sound out the words. Instant word recognition by sight greatly increases reading fluency and reading comprehension.

yeah well my brother has it..!

Well said Um-albanin are you a specialist? I forgot whats your profession is?

Charm: Dr.Hitman's reply mentioned that the disorder is characterised by learning disability (reading & writing), learning Disability, that includes Math in it, ya3ni confusing between (7,8) (2,6), Arabic letters i mean here. As well letters like 7a2, '7a2, jeem in Arabic... Similar letters and numbers.

ROssonero: usually Special Education specialist help, maybe they have one specialist in your Uni...

XLNC: hmm which brother of yours?

^^ number 2 :)

my friend's brother has it, its when the person can't read properly the words look muddled up infront of him.
Is he always drooling and has fixed expression on his face?

This webstie if very informative & helpful:

Dyslexia (http://www.dyslexia-parent.com/hints.html)

if a kid get confused between Ba2, ta2 and tha2 .. could that be considered a form of Dyslexia ?

Well said Um-albanin are you a specialist? I forgot whats your profession is?


Salam sis. Actually I am a specielist in emergency. I've read the above artcle in one of the websites. I didnt write it dear.

if a kid get confused between Ba2, ta2 and tha2 .. could that be considered a form of Dyslexia ?

No, because that is common among children. Unless this stays for many years as the child grows

How to recognise dyslexia in children? (http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/D/dyslexia/children.html#children)

....what i know about those kids who are Dyslexial are poor in reading and writing but they are very good when it comes to hand skills and manual or physical activites and sports....in exact basketball......

....I am not sure that its true though!...:os