Essays on Dyslexia

Although people tend to think of dyslexia as “just” a reading disorder it can have a significant influence on children and young people’s development. Dyslexia may cause a delay in physical development, children with dyslexia may learn to crawl, walk, talk and ride a bike later than their peers as they tend to be less...

Special education is a really broad subject, there is an enormous amount of different aspects that can harm one’s way of learning. Since my oldest boy has autism I thought this was just one of two learning disabilities that a child can bear. During the duration of the course, I learned there is a lot...

Some people in the world may have trouble with reading, spelling, and other academics. You may not know why they can not read or spell as well as other people because they have a condition. This condition is called dyslexia people with dyslexia battle with reading, writing spelling together with handwriting. Although having dyslexia does...

Research Question: In which ways can adults help Dyslexic students from ages 5 through 10 at school to cope with emotional issues?   The emotional effects of dyslexia and the many ways adults can help their children counter these effects. Imagine if you have noticed someone in your family, school, or workplace that struggles with...

Dyslexia is one of several distinct learning disabilities. It is a specific language-based disorder of constitutional origin characterized by difficulties in single word decoding, usually reflecting insufficient phonological processing abilities. These difficulties in single word decoding are often unexpected in relation to age and other cognitive and academic abilities; they are not the result of...

Dyslexia Dyslexia is a hereditary neurological disorder experienced by 10% of the Australian population which causes the information relating to literacy to be processed in a different area of the brain (Brain Foundation, n.d.; Dyslexia Association Australia, n.d.a; Sousa, 2005; The Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, n.d.). While it is a spectrum disorder, common...

I. What is dyslexia? and can it be cured? Most definitions of dyslexia include the evaluation of an error between the inability to read and a low IQ level. These inconsistent definitions carry the verifiable suspicion that the perusing challenges of the dyslexic stem from issues that diverse from those characterizing the destitute pursuer without...

Dyslexia affects a child’s ability to pronounce, write and spell words. Reading consists of many interconnecting elements; people are expected to connect symbols to sounds, join the sounds together to create words, interpret the words and combine them into sentences that are intelligible. Individuals with dyslexia have difficulties connecting symbols to sounds which affects all...