Do You or Your Child Have Dyslexia?

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Dyslexia

A Vicious Cycle of How Dyslexia Can Disrupt Your Life and Goals

What is Dyslexia? 
        
Dyslexia is a brain based disorder that impairs a person’s ability to read.  Dyslexia is a common learning disorder and occurs in children and adults with normal vision and intelligence.  It may present symptoms in other ways also. 

Dyslexia is a common neurological disorder causing difficulty reading because of an inability to easily and correctly process and interpret certain symbols.

Between 5 and 15 percent of people in the United States have dyslexia.

Dyslexia is a neurological and often genetic condition, and it is not the result of poor teaching, instruction, upbringing, or lack of intelligence.

According to Medical News Today,"People with dyslexia are more likely to develop immunological problems.".

​BETWEEN 5 AND 15 PERCENT OF PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE DYSLEXIA.

This is just one example of what letters
​might look like to someone with Dyslexia.

What Someone With Dyslexia May See Instead of Words, Just Broken Letters

Signs may include:
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• Reaching milestones later (crawling, standing, walking, talking, ride a bicycle)

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• Delayed speech development (difficulty learning to speak, pronounce words, rhyme)

• May be slow at learning groups of data (months, weeks, multiplication chart, colors)

• Having difficulty reading (normal intelligence, parental support, but still difficult)

• Coordination (seem clumsier, difficult to catch ball, poor eye-hand coordination)

• Left/Right confusion

• Reversal (reversing letters, numbers, words)

• Spelling difficulty

• Attention span-difficulty concentrating-may also have ADHD 

• Sequence of ideas may be illogical or out of order

• Auto-Immune Issues-asthma, hay fevers, allergies, eczema

Language Communication Checklist

Lips With Writing on Them- Communication Difficulties Like Not Understanding or Responding

​Examples of Communication Issues

•  Delay in learning to speak
•  Does not properly regulate tone of voice, loudness or is monotone
•  Vocabulary is limited or uses vague and imprecise language
•  Frequently mispronounces words
•  Inability to easily learn songs, poems and/or rhymes
•  Uses poor grammar
•  Pauses awkwardly when speaking and uses (“you know”, “well”, “um”, “uh”)
•  Frequently uses body language and hand gestures to try to convey meaning
•  Has problems coming up with the right name, word or terminology
•  Responds inappropriately when asked a question
•  Tries to avoid talking, especially in front of groups, authority figures and   

       strangers ​

Spelling and Dyslexia

How the Word Teapot Might Look if Written by a Person with Dyslexia

• Difficulty with symbol decoding
• Ability to understand sequencing
• Difficulty with verbal expression
• Letter reversal
• Difficulty with written expression

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