What is Dyslexia? Dyslexia is a childhood neurological disorder due to which child suffers from difficulty in learning and reading and inability to interpret letters into their respective sounds.
In this disease, child faces difficulty in understanding new things.
It takes time grasp the ways to solve a problem.
Although it is a serious issue because difficulty in reading lags behind a child's career; yet there may be some fields in which such children do better performance.
It is also called Developmental Reading Disorder.
Short-term memory loss, difficulty in verbal communication, learning and reading difficulty and naming things fast are the sign of dyslexia.
Types of Dyslexia There are various types of dyslexic diseases that can cause difficulties in learning and reading.
These types are classified on the basis of the nature of identified problem in central nervous system.
Trauma Dyslexia- Children may have developmental Dyslexia, i.
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it get developed in early stage of life or you can say within first year from birth or even at the time of birth.
However, trauma dyslexia develops as a result of brain injury during any accident or stroke.
It happens only when there is a serious head injury.
It is seen only in accidental cases.
This is the case when dyslexia is acquired by accidental incident that is why it is also called acquired dyslexia.
Primary Dyslexia- our brain is divided into two parts, i.
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left and right hemisphere.
Left hemisphere helps us in solving arithmetic problems, identification of numbers, finding mistakes, making calculations and measurements.
Primary dyslexic sufferers usually dominant on right side of brain.
Therefore, they face difficulties in reading and understanding things.
However, they can better understand things if those are explained through some images and creativity.
Boys are more prone to this problem.
The worst point about the problem is that it is hereditary.
Secondary Dyslexia- It is also known as development type of dyslexia.
It causes impairment neurological problems in spellings and words detection.
This problem can improve with age.
It may be possible that a child may face difficulties in earlier stage of life and may perform well when grown up or you can say in college life if they get proper training.
Nervous system continues to develop; therefore, chances of recovery increases.
Causes of Dyslexia In dyslexia, some parts of brain function in a different way.
As I mentioned earlier, normal human being uses left hemisphere of brain, but a dyslexic person thinks from his/her right hemisphere that makes the sufferer different from others.
Some theories have also proved that it is a genetic problem that upcoming generations can be affected if it is found in any of the member in family.
But it is not necessary always that parents having dyslexia, will have a dyslexic.
It is a rare case when acquired dyslexia is found.
According to phonological processing impairment theory, patient find problem.
Activity level of patient is very low which major cause of the problem is.
Symptoms of Dyslexia Symptoms can be different in two different patients because one may have the problem due to some accident and other may have genetic problem.
The main problem a dyslexic patient faces is difficulties in learning new things, making calculations, problem in reading and understanding words; he cannot sing rhymes because he can't produce corresponding sound.
A dyslexic person feel problem in speaking and word pronunciation.
Such person finds everything difficult and may not react to activities instantly because it is very difficult to grasp new things for them.
Treatment and prevention The Cluas experts say that the family and friends need to be very supportive.
Besides this, special training program classes are available for such children.
The main thing is to generate their interest in activities.
Parents need to generate a positive support, a dyslexic can learn better this way.
Regular practice of the new things may help a lot in recovering from dyslexia.
The training programs need to be highly planned and should be implemented in small steps so that it can be easy to memorize things for a dyslexic.