22.4.14

What You Should Know About Reading Disorders

By Essie Osborn


When an individual has problems when they read, they tend to be slow compared to other people their age. This may affect their daily life activities, self-confidence and even their academic achievements. However, there are several reading disorders that can affect people. Therefore, it is important for parents to be alert so that they can notice any difficulties that their children may encounter.

Learning problems are quite common. However, only a few cases of these conditions are usually detected. Usually, these disabilities are caused by two major factors. These are external factors and biological or genetic aspects. These aspects can affect the individual during conception, after birth or even in their adulthood.

Blind, deaf and mute children tend to have several problems when they are reading. These are the hitches that are triggered by biological factors. Some children may inherit these traits from their parents. In addition, brain problems may also affect the learning ability of the individuals. Most doctors can extensively explain problems that are triggered by genetic factors.

Disabilities caused by external factors can affect children who do not suffer from any health problem. Some of these outside aspects are from school, family life, social life and environment. Some children from families that treasure learning tend to read faster than those who come from homes that have no books at all.

The common symptoms of this condition include trouble understanding letters, sounds and words and their meanings, slow word interpretation, problems recognizing words and letters and phonics. They also confuse the letter order, have difficulty remembering common sight words, they have a sluggish and agonizing learning and they frequently substitute general words such as a, I, he and she. However, these symptoms tend to vary from one individual to another.

The learning process involves different components that are combined together. These include eye muscle coordination, visual memory, ability to sequence, integrating visual signs with memorized phonetics and ability to associate different sounds with their denotations. Therefore, if any part of this entire procedure is interrupted, then a reading problem may develop. However, there are different diagnostic and detection techniques that physicians can use to identify these problems.

It is believed that if the problem is identified early, the chances of having successful treatment are higher. Therefore, parents should carefully monitor the academic skills of their children particularly when they start schooling. Children who attend curriculum based or preschool programs that are academically exhaustive are usually identified earlier compared to those who delay their education.

These disabilities can easily be managed by educational or occupational experts. They usually conduct a thorough evaluation of the intelligence levels, vision and hearing of the affected individual. This ensures that any other infirmities are detected early enough. They will then come up with a detailed treatment program that is tailored to the needs of the child. This will help the patient to interpret, understand and remember written information.

Most parents have difficulties coping with a child who has reading problems. Therefore, you should educate yourself about the different disorders so that you can help your youngster deal with his/her problem. This way, you will not have to worry that your baby will be considered slow or will be assigned to a class that is less challenging.




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