Dyslexia

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Dyslexia

The problem that effects one out of every ten kids
in the United States of America is dyslexia. Although to some people this
disorder may be very noticeable, it can really sneak up on you. Most of
the time kids with dyslexia aren't recognized until they are about eight
or nine. The most important thing to remember is that is takes time to
solve, and sometimes cannot be cured at all. Dyslexia develops during the
first six months of gestation . Neurons are churned out in the brain's
ventricular zone. Attached to fibers, the neurons travel to the cerebral
cortex, which contains the language centers. Here they hit a barrier,
stop and take their place in layers above previously deposited neurons,
(which is normal). In the brains of dyslexics, how-ever, there are
breaches in the barrier and the neurons enter them, leaving clumps of
nerve cells called ectopias, which appear to interface with the brain's
ability to receive and transmit certain messages. They are now finding
that dyslexia can run in the family. If you or your other relatives have
dyslexia that means that there is a chance that your own child could have
it. Unlike what most people think, dyslexia is not to be blamed on the
parent for negligence in teaching reading and writing. Dyslexia is not
any ones fault it simply occurs when the barrier in the language center of
you brain cracks. In some experiments done by the University of Montreal,
they are comparing good adult readers to dyslexic adult readers. In most
cases the adult dyslexics were at about the high school level. When the
adult dyslexics were compared to third graders in matching sounds with
letters, they scored below the eight and nine year olds that were tested.
It's not just a visual problem, actually they can see the letters fine, it
is more of a comparing problem. Dyslexics usually cannot spell simple
words by just hearing someone speak them to them. Some of the...