Thursday 19 June 2014

Facts About The Reading Disorders

By Sherry Gross


Reading is actually one of the most entertaining hobbies. It gives one an experience which is similar to that of watching films. However, many says that reading is more fun since you are the ones who will generate the visualizations and you would feel the situations more vividly as if you are the protagonist in the story.

But other than serving as a recreation, it also benefits you in a lot of positive and helpful way. Basically, it helps you with your daily dealings and academic accomplishments. That is why this skill holds a very great place in your accomplishment. But there are actually cases when this engagement does not serve to be enjoyable but a nightmare instead. That situation is called reading disorders.

This disorder is identified if there is a recognizable impairment in reading such as in speed, accuracy, and comprehension. But it is only diagnosed to be a disability if the impairment goes to as much as affecting the academic achievement of a person as well as his daily living. In other terms, people call this disability as dyslexia.

But the case is not the same since only the areas of writing and spelling is involved in dyslexia. But in the case of this impairment, it involves a different level which is associated to that of a learning disorder. With that, it is defined as an impairment that signifies a gap between the general intelligence of a person and his ability.

It is actually far from the assumption that one who has this disorder is not at all intelligent, but that, it is part of the many learning disorders. Speaking of learning disorders, they actually refer to some kind of difficulty in learning as well as poor performance in academics. However, it is not associated to low intelligence, mental retardation, lack of learning opportunities, and other common learning disabilities.

Basically, this disorder even persists to individuals with normal intelligence, motivation to read, and educational opportunities. But it is the case in which a person finds a certain field difficult to learn like for instance people who have problems in mathematics, or in language, and many more to the point that they perform poorly in academics. But they certainly are not dull.

So basically, the common issues met by the sufferers of this are the following. One is the lack of comprehension skills during reading whether it is oral or silent. Aside from that, is the event of word omission and the reversal of letters and words. Still another case is the difficulty in decoding words and associating them with sounds. Not only that, they also have poor vocabulary.

With several studies, researches found out that the cause of this disorder is due to some mutations of genes corresponding to the language skills and that it is not necessarily inherited. That is because the ninety percent of individuals who have this do not belong to families with a history of the disorder. It is just that there is some malfunction in the language lobe of the brain.

But due to the effect which this disability can cause, several treatments where formulated in order to aid people who possess it. Generally, it is agreed that a customized education is needed to remedy this. So that means that individuals with the impairment should attain a different instruction, and speaking of this, there are several establishments that cater to this.




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