Dyslexia...........does anyone like me believe there is no such thing?

Question

If some-one is poor at maths or arts,then that is that. So why do some people feel the need to call individuals who are poor at reading or writing dyslexic.
It has been proven, that if these people are given one to one attention they have no problem picking up these skills very quickly.
I think some people feel more comfortable, when their children are struggling with letters, to give a medical reason why "their perfect little child" is not as quick as they believe he/she should be.
Just as badly behaved children get away with A.D.H.D or obese people apparently suffer from ENHANCED APPETITE SYNDROME. We all have faults and should accept we are not perfect but please do not try to hide behind a so called medical problem.

To Emily S . How did you read the dictionary . Plus i never said anything about being thick. You just were not as good at english until you decided to try harder. Mind you it is almost impossible to fail any exams these days so you may be a bit of a thicko.

To treving42........no you dont

Yeh dream on DAVID C. I think in you,re case you mean " normally deranged"

NOT IN ENGLISH I BET ELIMY

Answer 1

Where did you pull this little gem from?

You seem to speak with some authority, about something you really have not researched very well.

Dyslexia is a very real condition as is ADHD & ADD. Yes it is true that ADHD & ADD are way over diagnosed, but that does not make the condition real.

Dyslexia comes from the Greek meaning difficulty with words. People with dyslexia have normal intelligence, but have significant problems with one or more of the following, reading, writing & spelling.

The brain processes the information it receives, people with dyslexia & Dyscalculia tend to;
Misread letters & figures
Write or put letters & figures the wrong way round
Difficulty with sequencing letters & figures

I my self being dyslexic have trouble in reading, I often miss small words, mix up letters and miss commas etc. Strangely I have always being able to spell very well, but could not read until my early teens, when a teacher took the time to help me and a few other students.

I was NOT aware of my dyslexia, (so I could hardly use it as an excuse). When my daughter was diagnosed, I seriously believed, that we were being played for fools, as what my daughter was seeing I could see also, so I dragged my husband into the room, sadly he did not see what my daughter and I could, for that matter no one else could either, which was one hell of a shock because up until then I thought that every one saw things the way I saw them.

My daughter found having specially tinted lens helped, and with in a week or so of having these specially tinted glasses her school teacher reported a vast difference, in her ability to read and write. Even a few of her friends noticed the difference, I know her father & I certainly did.

Dyslexia is separate from Dyscalculia which is difficulty doing mathematical problems, but both are due to a brain dysfunction in processing information it receives.

Answer 2

No im 21 and i have it, and i only found out 2 years ago that this why i am so bad at english, i can't spell a f$*£ing thing, do you know how annoying that is!!!
i got all A's and B's in all my exams expect english, which i got an F in because no-one could read my papers propaly
tehn at 19 i re-sat my gsce english with a dictionary near me and i got a B,

stop judging on something you not understand, were not just thick

There are many forms of dyslexia, i cant spell i can read i get letters jumbled up in my brain, and right them down wrong,
im sure it is possible for people to fail in exams these days im sure u have no qualifications,

sorry did i mention i just got a 1st in my degree!!!!!!
prat!

Answer 3

Dyslexia is real. Unfortunately, children are diagnosed when they actually have a different problem, such as Irlen Syndrome. Parents who you condemn that have their child diagnosed, are parents who love their child so much that they will do whatever they have to in order to help their child succeed. Parents do not diagnose the children. That is done by medical professionals. If a parent does not have their child diagnosed, then they may not receive services that enable their child to get the best help. I have the utmost respect for parents who can face imperfection in their child and get them help. Its the child who is ignored and beat for mistakes that is least likely to have a productive life, in school and later as an adult. If you want to disprove a medically accepted problem, you need to at least have the education and research background that these doctors have. These people don't hide behind a medical problem. They are facing it, and teaching their children to succeed in spite of it.

Answer 4

For your information, Dyslexia was discovered over 150 years ago, and has been medically and physically proved to exist. The physical proof has only arrived in the last ten years with CAT scans being able to see how the brain functions.

You are under the misapprehension that Dyslexia is a problem, where it is not - it is a gift - a brain that functions at twice the speed of a 'normally arranged' brain.

The problem is that only around 10% of individuals have some form of Dyslexia, so the education system is geared up to teach folks with 'normal' brains. Dyslexia, is like having a jet engine, and being taught how to move with a petrol engine.

The brain does not come with a workshop manual, so teachers make the best guesses how it operates. And a few adjust their lessons to take in the different learning styles of the class they have.

Dyslexia is formed before birth. 85% of us will divide our brain into two and only develop one hemisphere before birth, to reduce the size of the head coming down the birth canal. this is the Right hand side, the side responsible for subconscious activity. the core responses are formed by our mothers reactions.

after birth, the conscious side starts to form - left hemisphere -, and this is connect to the new world we arrive into. this side of the brain thus controls the side of the body we lead with - right handed - and our subconscious balances the movement.

For 5% the development is done in reverse, its the left hemisphere that gets the sub conscious development first, and they grow up to be left handed.

For 10%, both sides of the brain develop at the same time. many of these children used to have problems at birth, before sesiarian birth was developed, perhaps why more now seem to survive. However the result is the brain is divided into four. Mild dyslexics have four even compartments, severe dyslexics have uneven divisions.

Another problem is that many parents dump the responsibility of education soley on the schools now, My former partner taught in a school in Paulsgrove, Portsmouth, where only three kids in her English class lived in home that had books in it. Dyslexics are bright kids, and they develop ways to hide thier problems very rapidly.

So the first problem faced by a dyslexic is to overcome, is balance, the body of a dyslexic is naturally ambi-dexious, with both right and left being able to be used with similar dexterity. however, until the child gets used to this, they are more clumsy. and the more the parents try to force them into one hand or the other, they will prolong the process.

the next problem is that dyslexics have amazing memory potential, as they are using the whole of their brain more efficiently, thinking in both the active and sub conscious parts of the brain at the same time. however, with so many more abstract connections, the input is slowed down. the reading width of a mild dyslexic is about 15 letters wide, severe are less, compared wit the normal 35 of a average person. thus words are split, and the vowels dropped to speed up learning in the methods not suited to dyslexics students.

by the way, I am a dyslexic - mild, I have a PhD and I teach students to realise their full potential away from my core subjects. Then so was Sir Isacc Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci, Shakespere and Albert Einstien. Like all gifts, its only a problem when others fail to reconise your brilliance.

Answer 5

as a parent of a spec ed student now grad. let me educate your uneducated brain.

all disabled are protected by the american's with disability act. thank god.

prior to that and idea act slow or odd students never got into school.

they do not HIDE. to get a dx do you know what you have to go through to a. get tested then b. get help. it is not easy and take a lot of time effort and work by schools, drs and psychiatrist and parents not to mention the special student.

the fact that when i was born these kids never saw the light of a classroom is amazing.

many foreigners bring thier spec needs kids here to get help and therapy and many go on to work and be independent. go try that in cnd where they treat the disabled like dirt sometime.s.


want more info go to www.disabilityinfo.gov
www.usa.gov
www.ed.gov

btw a normal family can have a long history of delays in just on area ie reading, or math but do well at other things but that alone does not get you special ed.

there is an epidemic of severe odd adhd and autism not just in the us but now worldwide. mass studies are now being undertaken. some blame shots i blame multiple things ie plastics and chems. just the other day a chem in plastics call BPA was iniicated as a cause.

Answer 6

Not enough parents take the time to sit and read with their kids today.I've worked as a support teacher, helping the kids to read.Some of them did really well when they had my full attention.Yet if they were asked to read to the family at home, then get their reading diaries filled in they never bothered.
I've also had to look after a boy with ADHD.
My eldest son used to go hyper when he was small if he was given squash at school, or any sweets with artificial colours in.It took me 2 years to get through to the teachers not to feed him rubbish.He was fine when he was at home the weekend, eating healthy foods.So I do think diet plays a huge part in bad behaviour in kids today.
Maybe we do try and label too many things with medical terms, but it doesn't mean to say that they don't exist.
We are not all educated about such things, and I don't pretend to know all the answers.
I suffer from depression, and was told by my mother in law to snap out of it.Then her daughter and best friend were diagnosed with it, all of a sudden she's an expert on the illness.I can't help but laugh at her.

Answer 7

I think with anything these days there is a tendency to over categorise people without much proof! However I do believe there is such a thing as dyslexia and in its most classic form it is easier to understand! It is difficult to see it in a child who you could also class as unmotivated or lazy! If you watch a classic dyslexic write across a page from right to left, or put their shoes on the wrong feet when they are clearly an intelligent individual otherwise, it is quite fascinating! Dyslexics can improve over time and that is why they tend to pick up skills quickly on a one to one basis.

Answer 8

Dyslexia does not just effect English, it can have a overall effect on other areas. Of course its a condition, as is ADHD. ADHD is very difficult to diagnose and some children slip into the net when they are merely badly behaved, but that is not so for all of them. Until YOU yourself have a condition of which you are speaking of, i suggest you keep your comments to yourself. Otherwise maybe you would like to come and work with me for a day and diagnose and teach children with SEN. Then maybe you would have a better idea of the struggles they and their parents have. All the children i work with have SEN and although they have problems in some areas they more than make up for it in others. I have great respect and applaud any child or adult who is living with SEN in this society, especially with ignorant minded people like you around!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

aI do believe that some of these conditions are over-diagnosed. And that some children do respond to different methods of teaching, or any teaching.
However, my son is dyslexic. He ignores it, no one knows it. He is a bright boy, but he still phones me up asking who to spell really simple words.
I really noticed the difference when my daughter could read and write long before she went to school. They were so different. And yet, I was the same parent who taught them both. My son isn't stupid, by any means. Actually, out of the two of them, i think he is brighter.
Dyslexia runs in families. I was lucky to inherit my mother's genes, but my father suffered from dyslexia too. And once you know what to look for, then it is pretty obvious.
I don't think you need to hide behind term. You simply need to address it and deal with it, instead of ignoring it.
You think we should just accept it. No, there are ways to get around it. Use every bit of help you can get to further your life.

Answer 10

There is such a thing as statistical analysis in the evaluation of the full spectrum of human learning. Anyone who is two or more standard deviations below the mean in ANYTHING is determined to be "disordered", be it in reading (dyslexia), writing (dysgraphia), math (dyscalculia), or other areas of learning.
You are in error to assume that people who get one-on-one attention pick up these skills readily, as treatment can take years, even one-on-one. If a person "picks it up quickly", they weren't disordered to start with. Disordered does NOT mean lazy; it is an aberration in learning progression.