Dyslexia

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Dyslexia- literally meaning poor language- is characterized by difficulties in comprehending, and expressing the written/oral language. It is neither a disease, nor a behavioral or psychological problem. It has no cure. Dyslexia was first described, in 1896, by an English ophthalmologist W.P. Morgan, who called it "word blindness". For years, dyslexia has been misdiagnosed for mild retardation, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and plain stupidity. When in reality intelligence was not the problem. In fact, many dyslexics are generally creative with average to superior intelligence, and have unusual talents in the arts, athletics, engineering, or electronics. They excel in areas that require visual, spatial, and motor integration. Here are some of the reading mistakes which generally pertain to dyslexics: difficulty with sound symbol matching, punctuation, omission of syllables, poor phonetic decoding skills, poor comprehension in oral and silent reading, poor letter sequencing in spelling and reading, confusion on similar-looking words, such as form and from. It is a very important problem that needs to be looked at and spent a lot of time on to find the real answer to the opinions of dyslexia. It is important to define dyslexia as a gift or disability, so doctors and researchers know how to treat it. Many questions are still raised about if dyslexia is a gift of a disability.
When describing her experience with dyslexia one women wrote"....Sometimes Vicki could look at a page full of words and it would make perfect sense. Other times the words looked backwards to her. There were days when the lines rearranged themselves before her very eyes. Some times the words just blurred together and looked like a foreign language; and then there was the line that kept repeating. Over and over, it would jump out at her and she'd read this same line a dozen times or more like a skipping record. She couldn't get her eyes to shift p...