Disability dyslexia is often characterised by problems in speech and writing. When talking about literary problems, those who are affected by this condition may have problems when executing daily routine activities lime writing on a piece of paper. Their writing speed may even slow down to a crawl and they will have difficulty forming letters and even use speech related words when writing formal letters. These also might be related back to very poor motor skills, which can also represent itself in poor writing, being overtly clumsy and even poor co-ordination when walking or running. This is mainly also caused by the fact that most people with dyslexia have plenty of trouble distinguishing right form left and they are often left confused when given even the simplest of directions. While this is one of the main symptoms, we really haven’t discussed the causes of this condition at length yet, which can be split up into many different categories.

One of them is that many believe that dyslexia is carried through evolution and is an evolutionary disease. In summary this theory believes that, introduction of reading too late within someone’s neurodevelopment stage can promote dyslexia to occur, because the faculties have already been developed not to read or write, and teaching the cortex new tricks may prove to be difficult. There is also a hypothesis that centres around a theory that people with this condition have a specific problem when it comes to speech and speech sounds. Learning grammar and phonics is down to learning the sounds associated with them and dyslexics might already have a pre disposition in which it makes it difficult for them to learn. Research and development into this subject also reveal a theory that there could be a genetic link to dyslexia, which means that certain genetic markers and chromosomes could be linked to the disorder.

While there is no proven cure for the condition, there are many forms of structured learning and therapy that can help these individuals to learn how to write and read on their own. One of the ways is to leverage on structured learning like specialised phonics classes that focus on the reading deficits and improve on them. Children can also be exposed to a more engaging classroom environment, where teachers are trained to use games and the element of fun when teaching through textbooks, which can improve the attention and learning abilities of these children. More effective training and teaching methods can be given by teachers who have known and mild dyslexics within the school population.

This can be done by focusing on teaching them to read on the word level, which means the requirements must be fulfilled where they can master the skills needed to correctly pronounce each and every word and associated the correct sounds with speech/word correlation. There are also, in existence, many alternative therapies that are available for developmental and learning disabilities like dyslexia and they can include anything from special nutritional diets, osteopathy manipulation and homeopathy; just to name a few. So in learning disability dyslexia, these are some aspects you need to know.



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