Dyslexia In Middle Childhood Education

Dyslexia is a specific reading disorder of neurobiological origin. Of the language based learning disabilities, dyslexia is the most common. It is estimated that 1 in 5 school-aged children have a reading disability and of those children, 60% to80% have dyslexia (Dyslexia Center of Utah, 2016). Dyslexia is highly hereditary but can occur without any known family history. Early signs of dyslexia can be overlooked until the child enters school, unless there’s a family history in which case the child might be identified sooner. Some early signs are speech delay, difficulty with word retrieval and difficulty acquiring new vocabulary. They may also demonstrate difficulty remembering how to pronounce words correctly (International Dyslexia Association, 2016). Once the child begins school, the signs will become more apparent. Unlike their peers, in the early pre-literacy and early stages of reading, children with dyslexia may exhibit difficulty learning the alphabet and acquiring the alphabetic principle. Mastery of the alphabetic principle is what allows the reader to decode novel words. Individuals with dyslexia have difficulty with phonological processing, a necessary building block for the development of reading proficiency and consequently writing as it affects the ability to spell. Other indicators are difficulty with working memory and poor results in rapid automatized naming tasks. They may exhibit age appropriate spoken language and listening comprehension skills but

Throughout my elementary career, I had trouble reading and writing. I had to stay for afternoon classes to help me pronounce and comprehend letters and words. I had to take on extra reading and writing curriculum to make sure I was learning at the pace of everyone else. I was always behind no matter how fast they thought I would

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines dyslexia as a disorder in the brain that makes it difficult for an individual to write, read, and spell. People who have been diagnosed with the learning disability are often thought to be “lazy, dumb, careless, ‘not trying hard enough,’ or [have] behavior problems” according to Ronald D. Davis, founder of the Davis Dyslexia Correction Center.

As a reader, I have always struggled. From the first time, I began to read to now. We never understood why until I was in sixth grade. In sixth grade, I was tested for dyslexia and as a result we found out I was dyslexic. Through my grade school and high school years We did everything and anything to help me to read better.

This topic matters to me because I did have difficulties reading up until the age of 11. Throughout all of elementary school and most of middle school I was in an extra reading class and I think if someone

For a long time, dyslexia has been causing many humans, especially children, to have learning difficulties. The World Federation of Neurologists define dyslexia as, "a disorder in children who, despite conventional classroom experience, fail to attain the language skills of reading, writing, and spelling commensurate with their intellectual abilities" ("Dyslexia," 2013). Sometimes the letter m might look like w, and the number 3 might look like 8; dyslexia basically makes it harder for people to improve their language abilities. This is the behavior I wish to change because of the many negative impacts it has on people's literacy skills and lives. Many dyslexic children have considerable disadvantages while reading out loud or taking

In an article on dyslexia, Shaywitz (n.d.) states that the specific signs of dyslexia, both weaknesses and strengths, in any one individual will vary according to the age and educational level of that person. The five year old who can’t quite learn his letters becomes the six year old who can’t match sounds to letters and the fourteen year old who dreads reading out loud and the twenty-four year old who reads excruciatingly slowly. The threads persist throughout a person’s life (Shaywitz, n.d.). Unlike the difficulties that Mike went through in the book before being diagnosed, there ways to recognize and diagnose dyslexia at an early age. Dyslexia is usually diagnosed during elementary school. In some cases, it doesn’t become apparent until a child is older and is expected to read and comprehend longer and more complex material (Diagnosing Dyslexia, 1995). People who are trained in learning disorders can diagnose someone with dyslexia through a series of evaluations.

The National Centre for Learning Disabilities says that dyslexia is a neurological and often genetic condition, and not the result of poor teaching, instruction or upbringing. Dyslexia is a specific reading disability due to a defect in the brain's processing of graphic symbols according to the MNT Knowledge Centre. It is a learning disability that alters the way the brain processes written material. It is typically characterized by difficulties in word recognition, spelling and decoding. People with dyslexia have problems with reading comprehension.

Second grade is supposed to be one of the most carefree years of school. Then I was diagnosed with dyslexia, all of a sudden it wasn’t so carefree. I wasn't great at reading and was told that I wasn't like the other kids. I had a hard time fitting in in elementary school, but I as soon as I got a car I was introduced into a lifestyle, cars. It didn’t matter how school went and if you could read well all what mattered was fast and loud cars.

Throughout kindergarten to first grade I struggled with reading and writing, maybe it was a lack of interest or maybe I really had a hard time understanding the processes of reading and writing. I remember in first

Children that read well can process word in four hundred milliseconds, but children with dyslexia take five hundred milliseconds or more. This makes them not read as well as others and as fast as other can. (Hotz)

Growing, developing and learning are the facts of life for all children. Each day children are faced with many new concepts and various challenges. Can you imagine how it feels for a child to face not only new challenges life has, but to face these challenges while living with a learning disability? These challenges are met not just when they begin school either. Students suffer from learning disabilities from the moment they begin learning, not when they start school. Learning disabilities are real and they affect millions of people. “One such disability that affects over approximately 15 percent of the total American population is dyslexia” ( Nosek 5).

According to the dyslexia center of Utah’s website, one in five students have a language based learning disability. The most common language based learning disability is dyslexia. Although dyslexia affects the ability to read, it does not affect the general intelligence of a person. Dyslexia jumbles up words and mixes up letters making it hard to read, write, and spell (see figure 1). People with dyslexia often have low grades, poor social skills, and low self-esteem. Dyslexia is a very common disability in which a majority of the population has, it needs to be taken seriously because it is such a struggle.

I have Dyslexia. Dyslexia is a learning disorder that involves difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols. However, it doesn’t affect a person’s general intelligence. Living with Dyslexia is an everyday struggle. When I was younger, learning was something that I considered to be a nuisance; especially when I entered into middle school and high school. I noticed that there were things that I had trouble with that my peers didn’t seem to have a problem with.

A child is having a problem reading even after lots of help from both parents and teachers. At some point, they probably start to think that the child is just being lazy and not trying to read. It may not be the child, school or the parents fault. The child may have a reading problem called dyslexia. Having dyslexia does not mean that a child will never read, but it does mean that this child will learn to read in a different way than most children of the same age.