DySLeXia

According to Dr J E Cullis(1992), "Dyslexia means having difficulty with words in reading, spelling and writing - in spite of having normal intelligencee and ability". Snowling, M. J. (2000). (The definition of dyslexia (pp 14 -28). In Dyslexia (2nd Edition). Oxford: Blackwell) describes “dyslexia as a developmental disorder that lasts throughout life and is characterized by reading and spelling difficulties due to a deficit in oral language skills. ” It is different from simple language disorder. It means although someone can know very long word, he or she doesn’t know simple one. Therefore, many people considered it very mysterious and didn’t know the cause for a while.

If you suspect you or your children and friends to have dyslexia, you can diagnose a suspected person through consulting doctors or confirm symptoms. Many web sites offer some according to the people’s ages because of the difference of the people’s abilities. You have to suspect if your child experiences difficulty copying from the board, or gets confused about following instructions when playing a game. Many scientists state that it is important that dyslexia be discovered as early as possible. By doing so, you can increase the possibility of making the person a more skillful reader at an early stage.

Moreover, there are some apparent reasons why people are dyslexic. According to BBC news, in dyslexics, parts of the brain crucial to reading do not work properly, and BBC reported that British Dyslexia Association said that the dyslexic brain is different. Scientists also say that the brains of dyslexics show less neural activity than the normal brain in reading.’ ("For more information, please refer to this page") And, it is more common in English users because people cannot easily figure out the pronunciation from the written spelling. For example, normal people awkward the pronunciation ‘-tion’while they are listening to people or reading. On the other hand, dyslexic cannot recognize the pronunciation.

However, there are many treatments to improve dyslexia. Above all, people should make dyslexics can study in comfortable atmosphere. It is a good way to help the people lessen their fear about learning to spell or read. In this case, although dyslexics can not follow some remedial course, teachers should not scold them. Providing children with some games instead of rigid study can boost interest and lead them to go to places where they can find other children with the same problems to interact with to boost their interest. Schools should also continuously try to solve the problem through special service, such as providing more faculties to them and remedial language skill.

Furthermore, people ought to provide role models in order to instill courage among the dyslexics, and constantly help dyslexics deal successfully with the problem on and on. Actually, Many famous people such as Tom Cruise, Thomas Edison, Agatha Christie overcame dyslexia. In Tom Cruise’s case, he suffered from dyslexia as his mother and took the remedial classes. He is right handed, but does most things left handed, so he tried to improve his abilities in athletics and acting more than in other things. He never let his learning disability stop his life. In my thought, if dyslexics lose courage, they would regard themselves as stupid and eventually not be able to win the race. So, we should remind them to remember that they have possibilities to success in every field.

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