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dyslexia
what is dyslexia? my bro says he had it in like 1st grade or whatever and he had a hard time in school with spelling and whatnot but now can read better. isnt dyslexia when the letters in words get switched around?
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Most people think that dyslexia is when letters and words get mixed around but this is just not true. Dyslexia simply means having trouble reading. I have worked with people of all ages with dyslexia for several years and I have found these people learn in a different way. They are typically very smart but are not being taught in the way that works best for them. I have had great success with dyslexics by teaching them how to focus and then helping them use their strengths to learn to read.
For anyone in any language to read a word you have to know three pieces of information about the word: What it looks like (spelling) what it sounds like (pronunciation) and what it means.
When a dyslexic reads he sees the word and then his brain shows him an image of what the word means. This is relatively easy for a word like cat. Even a word like elephant can be easy if he has ever heard the word used to describe the long trunked animal we call an elephant. Where the dyslexic has problems is when picturing the meaning of a word like "was." His brain wants it to make sense and will use its ability to see things three dimensionally to find something that makes sense. Often the word becomes saw. Is can become Island or I. (Everyone does this to some extent from time to time. I know every time a see a sign in our town that says Sicily's Plaza my brain shows me Sicily's Pizza. Of the people I know everyone has done this.)
Too bad the words that give dyslexics the most problems are the words teachers spend the least time on. They typically just tell a student to learn the sight words. These few words make up over 60 percent of our written vocabulary. If when we teach reading we would spend a lot of time on these words making sure a student thoroughly understands what they mean then there would be few instances of dyslexia. In schools that do this there a very, very few cases of dyslexia (usually 10-20% of students are dyslexic).
Your brother would probably find that with a little of the proper guidance he wouldn't have any problems with reading at all. One of my clients who struggled in 9th and 10th grade is now going to be the number 1 Junior in his class at the US Naval Academy.
Best of luck to you and your brother. If you want more information you can find it at www.dyslexia.com
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Dyslexia is when your brain doesn't comprehend written words the right way. Sometimes the letters are scrambled or placed on top of one another or just mixed up.
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its when you do stuff backwards. Like some kids will write words backwards or upsidown stuff like that. But it can be fixed.
Jess
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Your right. Its when letters in words get mixed up. Most people with dyslexia do not outgrow it, but it can get better. Your brother may have outgrown it or not had it at all. Some kids just have trouble reading in elementary school and outgrow it.
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