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Home and Family Parenting How High Visual Intelligence Can Cause Apparent Dyslexia| How High Visual Intelligence Can Cause Apparent Dyslexia |
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| Written by David Morgan |
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In every class you will find children displaying this phenomenon. There are many children who struggle with reading, while being evidently bright and hard working. They will often do well at first, learning the alphabet and simple words quite easily. But then, as other children progress, they start to struggle, hitting a plateau by the age of 7. With the text using a wider vocabulary, they resort to more and more wild guessing as they become confused. Eventually their confidence begins to crumble. They can feel the frustration and concern of the adults around them, but don't know what to do. Because people are not trained to recognise this pattern, it is often diagnosed as dyslexia. But that is quite wrong. Dyslexia is a broad term that covers any fundamental problem with reading despite normal intelligence. But trying to read the wrong way is not dyslexia. And that is what is happening. Let me explain what's happening. A very visual child will learn most of the alphabet quite easily. Then they are usually shown some simple high frequency words, which they can sight-memorise. Their first early reader books are usually made up of a very simple vocabulary of these common words and they can apparently read them, using this sight-memorisation and a bit of intelligent guessing. So all seems well. But this approach implodes on them as the text gets more complicated. Some children will be able to switch to decoding words phonetically, because they also have a strong natural auditory ability. They can see how the sounds within the speech relate to the text. Others cannot naturally distinguish the sounds within the words (phonemes) and so cannot relate them to the letter patterns that represent them in text (graphemes). At least not without quite a bit of careful instruction. And these are the children that get stuck. They will use the context to guess wildly, taking the first letter of the word as a guide. They are baffled by their predicament and have no idea why it has gone wrong. They can feel people's frustration, but have actually been working hard. One in five children reach the age of 11 unable to read properly and these children make up a large proportion of that group. It is a disaster for their academic career and working life. And what a tragedy. We routinely watch them become confident readers in just a few weeks. They only need to be guided back onto the right path. I hate children being labelled dyslexic because it reduces the sense of urgency to actually finding the solution. Acceptance creeps in, consigning the child to a much harder track through life. About The Author: To read more detail on how to help a child learn to read visit our site. There is a range of information on techniques to fix most causes of dyslexia. It's often quite easy! Kindly provided by 4Girls.dk You are welcome to use this article on your own website, if you include this link. |
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