Myth & Fact about Dyslexia

Dyslexia is the most frequent reason bright children struggle with writing, spelling or reading. However, it affects other areas too. Dyslexic children also face problems:

·        Recalling their address, their alphabet,

·        or their multiplication tables or multiplication

·        The art of tying shoes

·        I am writing some numbers or letters in reverse past the end of the first grade.

·        The art of telling time on a clock using hands

·        The left and right are different.

·        Confusion of letter pairs like B-D, bP or p-q or the letter g-j...

·        Making sounds in the correct order, in multi-syllable phrases like hamburger, spaghetti, and animal consonant.

·        Most people with dyslexia also suffer from dysgraphia - extremely odd handwriting.

·        The letters they write don't go on the line

·        There could be a strange gap between their words

·        Sometimes, tall letters are made to appear shorter,

·        Tails don't always stay in the air,

·        sentences are often not formally titled with capital letters and

·        Punctuation is usually left out.

 Myth vs Fact

Unfortunately, many children who have Dyslexia do not get diagnosed - in part because of persistent misconceptions about dyslexia, such as:

MYTH:

He doesn't have dyslexia since he reads.

Fact:

All children who have dyslexia can read up to a certain point. However, auditory processing makes it difficult for them to hear all the sounds that makeup words. They can't read words without sounding them out.

Instead, they employ other strategies, such as context clues (pictures and stories that are predictable or familiar), the shape of words or letters, and guessing from the initial term or two.

However, their memory is only a tiny amount of words. Therefore, these strategies won't work in the third and fourth grades. If they don't have the proper assistance, they will not improve their performance, regardless of how clever or hard they try.

The cause of this is when children are educated to be able to do so through this Barton Reading & Spelling System. It is designed to teach those with dyslexia and children to spell and read in the middle of ninth grade.

It's considered to be a level for adult readers in our culture. Readers who are in ninth grade can pass the GED and attend college.

 

MYTH:

Dyslexia is when you look at things in reverse.

Fact:

If it were that easy, we could fix the issue by having children who are dyslexic hold their books before a mirror.

Research has shown that people with dyslexia cannot look at things backwards.

 

MYTH:

Dyslexia is not shared.

Fact:

According to the most up-to-date dyslexia study conducted by the National Institutes of Health, dyslexia is the cause of 20 per cent of Americans (and around the same proportion of those in other countries.)

That's one of every five children.

Dyslexia ranges from moderate to severe.

Dyslexia can occur on its own or be associated with Attention Deficit Disorder.

In reality, if you know someone who has ASD/ADD that has difficulties with writing, spelling or retaining multiplication tables, the person could also have dyslexia.

 

MYTH:

He can read. He's not able to spell. This isn't dyslexia.

Fact:

A child with severe dyslexia may have difficulty reading right from the first day.

However, intelligent children with mild to moderate dyslexia may fool you in the first few years of school. They can read. But you're not sure how they're reading. However, their unique reading methods can force them to hit an impenetrable wall in the third or fourth grade.

Their poor spelling, however, is evident from the beginning. They might successfully pass the test if they're constantly studying the spelling checklist. However, they'll be unable to spell the exact words when writing compositions or sentences.

Poor spelling is closely linked to reading difficulties, and bad spelling is evident in the beginning. However, it could take from third and fourth grade for reading issues to become more apparent.

Spelling and reading are closely connected abilities.

 

MYTH:

She doesn't have dyslexia. Her school has tested her. And she wasn't eligible to receive special education.

Fact:

The schools only test to determine "Learning Disabilities," not for dyslexia.

Only those children who are the most dyslexic are eligible for Learning Disability or LD and can receive assistance via the system of Special Education.

As per NIH research According to NIH research, the majority of kids who have to learn Disability have dyslexia. Dyslexia is the most frequent learning disorder.

However, only one out of 10 children diagnosed with dyslexia qualify for special education programs.

Dyslexic kids who don't meet the criteria "fall through the cracks." They're in the regular classroom, struggle more than they ought to and are highly likely to drop out of school.

 

MYTH:

There is no such thing as dyslexia. It's just a euphemism that means a child cannot read.

Fact:

In the 1960s, that was the case.

However, thanks to more than 35 years of study conducted by the National Institutes of Child Health and Development (NICHD), an institute that is part of the National Institutes of Health, we now have a scientifically-based definition of dyslexia.

 

MYTH:

There is no way to determine if it was dyslexia. I tested my child in the open of the school. It was (pick one)

·        Auditory Discrimination Problem

·        Auditory Processing Disorder

·        Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)

·        Orthographic Deficit

·        It is challenging to remember spelling patterns.

·        Dysgraphia

·        Dysnomia

·        Dysphonetic Deficit

·        Phonemic Awareness Deficit

·        Reading Disability (RD)

·        Reading Trouble with Fluency

·        Memory deficits in the short-term and long-term

·        Specific Language Disabilities (SLD)

·        Visual Processing Disorder

·        Visual-Motor Integration Disorder

·        Visual Memory Deficit

·        Visual Problems with Tracking

·        Visual Convergence Problem

·        Problem with Vocabulary on Demand

·        Word Retrieval Deficit

·        Written Language Disorder

Fact:

The name of dyslexia will depend on the type of specialist who conducted the test, as well as their expertise in dyslexia.

Dyslexia can affect many different areas; however some test takers only test one part of the body. They discover one weakness and make a incorrect conclusion. They don't recognize that the weakness could be part of a larger problem such as dyslexia.

It's similar to the fable about blind men that encounter an elephant from different directions. The person who locates the trunk of the animal describes it in a different way from those who find the tail, and the one who discovers legs, tusks etc.

They don't "see" that what they discovered is just one piece of a larger thing that is an elephant.

 

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