Why My Dyslexia

From the time when I was a little boy, growing up in Graves County, Kentucky, I have had problems with my reading and writing. Things never seemed to click for me, a trait that the teachers attributed to a mild case of dyslexia mixed with a healthy dose of attention deficit disorder. I knew, however, that no disorder was the cause of my distaste of reading and writing. Rather, there was nothing really interesting surrounding me that would grab my interest in the classroom. The teachers I encountered never took any interest in what their students wanted to read or write; they developed assignments based on what the curriculum, a course of study developed by some politicians at the Board of Education, told them to

Dyslexia is a term regularly bandied about the educational community and is a word that is likely to have been heard by most of the general public. For all its popularity, dyslexia is a term that is shrouded in confusion and ambiguity. This confusion was experienced first hand during SE1 and has been observed as something trainee teachers and teachers alike encounter regularly (PLL, 5/11/11], Appendix 1, pg2).

It wasn’t until my bright seventh grade teacher, Mrs. Garver saw the signs of a dyslexic kid in me before the first quarter ended that I found out what dyslexia was. She told my mother what she thought I was dealing with and how we should go about learning if I even had dyslexia. After a week load of tests and my annoyance level raising, they told me I had dyslexia. I tried to ignore what they said, the help they tried to give me, and I decided I wasn’t going to believe them. I thought they were just making dyslexia up, that they were trying to make me look stupid. After long talks with my mother and my teachers where I told them I had no intention of going to special classes, they decide to instead give me extra time to finish assignments. The extra time to do assignments really did help, I would have to re-read any assignments given to me multiple times to understand them, and I would have my mother check any writing I did to make sure it made sense and wasn’t backwards.

This paper will attempt to break down and analyze three people who are said to have had some type of a mental issue. This paper will address the three people independently however every individual will be analyzed by the DSM-5 criteria for which ever disorder the individual is diagnosed to have. This paper will explain why the individual has the disorder and why alternate disorders will also fit the individual. This paper will state some short-term and long-term treatments that could beneficial to the client, based off their personal needs and disorders.

When I was in the second grade, I was having an extremely hard time reading. After several different tests, I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is just a general term for disorders that involves difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters,and other symbols, but that does not affect general intelligence.

Dyslexia can affect different individuals in different ways. For example, an individual might have trouble reading and another might have trouble with spelling and reading. The effects of dyslexia depend on the conditions severity.

The exact causes of dyslexia are still not completely clear, but anatomical and brain imagery studies show differences in the way the brain of a person with dyslexia develops and functions. Moreover, most people with dyslexia have been found to have problems with identifying the separate speech sounds within a word and/or learning how letters represent those sounds, a key factor in their reading difficulties. Dyslexia is not due to either lack of intelligence or desire to learn; with appropriate teaching methods, students with dyslexia can learn successfully.

Dyslexia also affects the brain and the way someone processes information. How dyslexia run in family the article by Wadlington say that thought of it running in the family is caused by the brain and chromosome differences. This shows that having dyslexia your brain has to process things in different ways to be able to understand something. People with dyslexia their brain works different and they end up having to use different part of their brain to learn like a normal person or child would. Morris wrote an article called Two Types of Brain This article explain how an experiment done by Morris used by taking someone who was dyslexic and someone who was not dyslexic which showed how their brain worked totally different. From the predominantly

Somehow after a full summer of working strictly on my handwriting, I still could not write in cursive. As much as I did not want the hardest third grade teacher, I got her. My parents told her what happened in second grade and how I could not write in cursive. The teacher told my parents that she could help me, and would help me and that she would be getting back in touch with them very soon. By Friday of the first week of school, this teacher had called my parents and had them come up to the school for a parent teacher conference. She told my parents that she believed I had something called dysgraphia. She said that with this being such an unusual learning disability, I would need to go to the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital For Children to be tested. The school said that to get into the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital For Children it would take at least until spring of 2001. My Dad had a very dear friend who helped up with the process and paperwork of being able to get in and be seen at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital For Children. Within about two weeks, I was in Dallas, being

Perhaps the most significant challenge that I have faced in my academic career has been my Dyslexia. I found out about this learning disability when I was young and one of my teachers noticed my test scores were not matching up with my skill level and when I was given a written test and a verbal test I preformed significantly better in the verbal test, which they said was due to the Dyslexia making it difficult for me to write down information that I already knew. After they noticed this I spent roughly five years in special education classes trying to learn how to overcome this disability. After those five years I was able to prove to the administration that I had overcome my disability to an extent where they took me out of the special education

Discussions of dyslexia require a definition of the term, and this is where we can come into some confusion if we are not careful. In fact, the “problem” itself exists in the defining of the word, and thus the labeling of those to whom the definition applies. However, with some knowledge of the etiology of “dyslexia” we can begin to ply our beliefs off the population of “dyslexics” and start to gain some understanding of their experiences with language learning. This is, after all, the intention of this research. Guardiola (2001) also assisted in redirecting the academic focus in this direction, towards the etiology of the term and how its history has shaped current social work, education, neurobiology, and psychology perspectives.

An observation you indicated in your MSE is client K’s facial expression when confused about what to eat. You stated how he was deep in thought and presenting confusion, following repetitive blinking when talking to the cashier. How an individual can mistake this perception is by implying that the client has an anxiety or learning disorder. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)(2013), the principles of a language disorder consist of vocabulary knowledge, low sentence structure, and inability to hold a conversation (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Since you announced that K is displaying confusion, a disability that this observation can be mistaken for is dyslexia. Tamboer, Vorst, and Jong

Biological factors Dyslexia is the late or abnormal development of literacy skills caused by a neurological difference, and for the most part shows itself as a different way of functioning. The brains of dyslexics are wired differently to those of non-dyslexics and appear less ordered. Compared to the average person, information processing is organized differently in dyslexic individuals, and brain scans have shown us that different areas of the brain are activated. Research suggests that there is a high level of hereditary susceptibility to dyslexia, with several chromosomes identified as playing a role in the (abmornal) development of information processing. For instance, disorder of phonological processing in the area of language and the

There are a significant amount of people in the world today who have dyslexia, and most of those people don’t even realize they have it. Dyslexia is usually affiliated with having little intelligence or being considered slow, but neither of those assumptions are true. The word dyslexia comes from the Greek language. ‘Dys’ meaning impaired, and ‘lexis’ meaning word. When people hear the term, they will probably think of someone mixing up the letters ‘m’ and ‘w’ or the letters ‘f’ and ‘t’, but there is a lot more to the disability. Learning disabilities are extremely common, especially in children, but dyslexia is one that people hear about quite often. Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that involves having trouble clarifying letters,

Dyslexia is a learning disability in reading. A child who has dyslexia struggles in all areas of reading, they have trouble with accuracy, fluency, comprehension, spelling and writing. The child being discussed is experiencing extreme difficulty learning specific sounds. Dyslexia is a brain dysfunction which deters children's learning abilities. However, this dysfunction can be helped through the use of audio and visual techniques and parents reading to the child such as stories and rhymes. Through these strategies the child improved and the child became an excellent reader.