Dyslexia

The patient who has dyslexia had a history of seizures as well as a astigmatism in her right eye.She was overall a very healthy child and did not have any significant health problems except for common childhood illnesses. The patient does not have any family members that have dyslexia besides herself. At around age five when the patient was in kindergarten her teachers and parents started to notice that she had trouble reading. She could not get the hang of it and it began to become a concern.…

school. I have dyslexia and learning has not been easy for me. I would study for hours only to learn that I hadn 't retained anything. I was tested and put into a special needs classroom. I have struggled with dyslexia all my life but over the years I have learned how to read and better comprehend information. I have done a lot of research of what dyslexia is. Here is some valuable information that I had found about dyslexia. According to David Perstein, MD, MBA, FAAP , "Dyslexia is a specific…

My research topic I’m doing is on dyslexia. In case if you’re wondering what is dyslexia is I will explain four types of dyslexia topics and give some details about all four. Dyslexia is a term for some people who has mentally disorders that causes struggling in learning how to read, observe letters that can be seen backwards. Languishing dyslexia could process through the mindset within the growth to the brain to function to its natural ability to gain improvement with highly…

Learning has always been hard for me. My struggle started in second grade when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. I was demoted to the low reading group and given “special” books to help me decipher the hieroglyphics we call English. My peers took this abasement as an invitation to exclude me from recess because I was the “dumb kid” with “stupid cooties.” I responded with the worst possible reaction: I started to believe them. I lost confidence in myself even though I had performed competently…

5 school has always been a struggle for because I'm diagnose with dyslexia. I did not i was diagnose with dyslexia until i was in the 7th grade. Dyslexia is a learning disorder that characterized with a hard time with reading and writing .It may also have problem speech sounds and comparing two letters or numbers that may look like . For example math question will ask what is 3 + 3 there answer is 6 but for those who have dyslexia might put 9 . I had hard time in school dealing with my learning…

voyaged into the marinas trench of learning. Here is where I would spend my days practicing writing the alphabets capital and lower cases in reiteration to receive a shiny pink sticker. My mother had acquired many techniques to help me counter my dyslexia such as, sculpting letters with vibrant shades of pink, orange and blue clay. A few tasks she would ask me to do is pick a small paragraph from a book I enjoyed and rewrite it onto paper, but she also encouraged my creativity by setting the…

If you walk into a high school in the United States one in five students, or 15-20% of the population, has a language based learning disability. Dyslexia is the most common of the language based learning disabilities. Dyslexia is a disorder that affects how people read interpret words, letters and other symbols but it does not affect the overall general intelligence of a person. “Having a specific learning disability in reading can impact many aspects of a child 's life. Not only does a student…

Dyslexia is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence. This reading disorder was in 1881 but the term Dyslexia was created by Rudolf Berlin. When a person has dyslexia their brain processes longer to the necessary steps to make connections. Dyslexia affects 40 million American children and adults , also people of all ethnic backgrounds. A person 's native language can play…

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letters “d,p,q,”. Thus the disability of dyslexia comes into play. There was a study that was done to see how dyslexia affect children at a young age. “Functional MRI was performed on 20 children with dyslexia (8–12 years old) during phonological processing before and after a remediation program focused on auditory processing and oral language training. Behaviorally, training improved oral language and reading performance. Physiologically, children with dyslexia showed increased activity in…