How to parent and teach a dyslexic child ?
Dyslexia means a disorder in psychological processes associated with reading, language processing, and learning. Children with Dyslexia are confused with letters and numbers and often learn to think in pictures and images instead.
Types of Dyslexia
- Development dyslexia is caused during the early stages of fetus development and is hormonal in nature. It decreases with the growth of the child and is more common in boys.
- Trauma Dyslexia occurs if the part of the brain that commands reading and writing abilities is injured.
- Primary Dyslexia does not change with age and is a malfunction in the left side of brain.
Dyslexia children can be successful in life. The main thing that they need from their parents is lots of love and emotional support. They should have a positive attitude towards children.
Children with dyslexia faces problem in reading.
- Parents can use a tinted cellophane paper over the page to cut down on the stark differences in the black and white print.
- Make the child read only one line at a time.
- Do not make your child read for long hours.
- Parents should help their child to create a visual image of what he is reading to help with comprehension.
- Include rhyming games in everyday tasks.
- Point out new words and attach a story to them so that child recognizes the word with that story. – Use the strengths of your child as the basis of learning.
- Accept your child’s limitations but do not allow them to use these as an excuse for failure.
- Have graph paper available at home to help him line up math problems.
- Use lined paper and help the child begin at the margin and write to the left.
- Make a daily check list for the pupil to refer to each evening.
- Encourage a daily routine to help develop the child’s own self-reliance and responsibilities. Use lined paper for writing.
- Use wristband to designate right or left hand. Use markers to highlight the word or text.
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About Dyslexia…definition and symptoms of dyslexia.
Dyslexia is not a disorder that is related to intelligence. Often, children suffering from dyslexia have higher IQ. The dyslexic child often suffers from having a specific learning disability as well as being exposed to ineffective instruction. Dyslexia is a developmental learning disorder that usually happens during the early years of a school-going child. It indicates an inability to read letters, to mix their sequence and to have difficulty with numbers. This disability creates a significant gap between the true potential and the day-to-day performance of a child in school. No two dyslexic children are exactly alike.
Dyslexia can be caused by ineffective reading instruction, auditory perception difficulties, visual perception difficulties, language processing difficulties.
Symptoms of Dyslexia
- A child who appears to be bright when you are talking to them but is struggling when you ask them to read, write or cope with maths is the strongest indicator of dyslexia.
- A dyslexic child faces maximum problem when it comes to spelling. Examples of words which cause particular difficulty are: any, many, island, said, they, because, enough, and friend.
- Jumbled spellings cause problems for a dyslexic child. Example of such words are dose/does, freind/friend, siad/said, bule/blue, becuase/because, and wores/worse.
- Poor handwriting or printing ability.
- Poor drawing ability.
- A dyslexic person can face difficulties in recognizing left or right.
- It is hard for a dyslexic to remember, understand or repeat something.
- Some children mix up ‘b’ and ‘d’, or even ‘p’ and the number 9. These letters are the same in their mirror image, and cause regular confusion for a dyslexic person.
- A dyslexic person faces problem in getting things in the right order.
- A dyslexic child faces problems in organizing themselves.
- A dyslexic child faces problem in following 2 or 3 step instruction.
- He may invert letters, reading or writing n as u, m as w, d as q, p as b, f as t.
- He may read or write words like no for on, rat for tar, won for now, saw for was.
- Dyslexic may put letters in the wrong order, reading felt as left, act as cat, reserve as reverse, expect as except.
- The dyslexic faces problems in with numbers and calculations, read or write 17 for 71, problems with mental arithmetic.
- A dyslexic may ignore punctuations, omits prefixes and suffixes or adds suffixes, reads only in present tense.
Dyslexic people are visual, multidimensional thinkers. They are intuitive and highly creative, and excel at hands-on learning. Because they think in pictures, it is sometimes hard for them to understand letters, numbers, symbols and written words.
The emotional turmoil these children undergo manifest in the following ways like anger, anxiety, self image, depression, sibling rivalry. He may face physically and socially immature in comparison to their peers. Because of sequencing and memory problems, the dyslexic may relate a different sequence of events each time he shares something. Teachers, parents, and psychologists may conclude that he is either psychotic or a pathological liar.