Dyslexia

Dyslexia

Dyslexia means “difficulty with words”.Dyslexia or word Blindness may be discovered when a child learns to read. It is a disorder due to a flaw in the child’s perception. Great personalities like Einstien were also affected by Dyslexia. Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder where some disturbances in brain functioning pose difficulty with one’s ability to read. These individuals typically read and write at levels significantly lower than expected despite having normal intelligence. Immediate memory or working memory is an attribute of the brain that saves information and ideas we are working with. Dyslexics have some functional impairment of the brain that poses difficulty in processing information and pieces of information get lost on the way
Very often dyslexia used to be mistaken for mental retardation now dyslexia is no longer an alien word where 5 to 12 percent of school children are believed to be dyslexic.

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The Patients:

• As their perceptual ability is weak, numbers written on the board do not mean anything to them. Frequently, the problem is one of mirror Image for example, the alphabet “b” appears as “d” or if inverted image where “p” is mistaken for “b”. Although the disorder varies from person to person, common characteristics among people with dyslexia are letter or word reversals when reading or writing (such as pat/tap, b/d, p/q)
• Difficulty in comprehending written or spoken directions;
• Difficulty understanding or remembering what is said to them or what they have just read;
• Difficulty expressing their thoughts on paper.
• Dyslexics take extra time to get information across and complete the task. At the same time, the memory of the dyslexics tends to be exceptionally good, in fact, many children substitute memory for reading. They ask their parents or somebody to read stories aloud to them and memorize the text or the contents.