27th April 2009
Reading With Dyslexia, Easier Said than Done
Working to read with Dyslexia simply means one must find help for reading difficulty. Diagnostically, dyslexia would indicate that a child or adult who displays general intelligence and who possesses the ability to learn and had the opportunity to do so, over time continues to have slow reading. Dyslexia cannot at all indicate that a person is debilitatingly disabled or mentally handicapped, just the opposite! Through accepted medical definition, Dyslexia exists only in those with at least average intelligence or better and sometimes creative spirits. Despite how talented may be, they have a hard time reading as children and even adults. Some first indicators of reading difficulty or dyslexia include instances including labored-reading on even phonetically simple common words or a ongoing difficulty mastering new words alone, or just faking reading all together. Perhaps your child may not be keeping up with peers, dyslexia is a a possibility. Reading difficulty may also cause lack of success mastering subjects like math and science After learning you or your child has a reading difficulty, what’s next? Will a dyslexic person ever read well, and comprehend what she or he sees? Will an adult with dyslexia grow phonemic awareness to reading fluency? Definitely. Sally Shaywitz, globally recognized Dyselxia researcher and chair of the fully explains that in Overcoming Dyslexia, her book. Though, there is a lot of conditions that are correlated to be found with dyslexia. Other conditions like these will typically be identified by a knowledgeable speech-language pathologist or dyslexia evaluation.
