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Dyslexia: How to Detect

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All boys and girls have different learning skills, so for some it is easier to write and read than for others. However, these differences, even if they are logical, do not give us excuses to hide or rule out the problem. If our child has significant difficulties in acquiring this knowledge, be careful, the child may be dyslexic.

For many years, children with difficulties in writing and reading have been considered cheerful, unpersevering and “more foolish” than the rest of children. Fortunately, that false conviction has been left behind; today it is not thought so, because behind many of them there can be a dyslexic person, a child who needs special help.

As in many other learning alterations, its detection is essential to avoid problems of social and labor integration in adult life.

Why does it happen?

Dyslexia remains an unprecedented enigma and not all experts recognize that the problem exists. For example, some people think that for dyslexia it is essential that there be neurological alterations.

In the opinion of most current experts, however, the existence of serious problems for a child to learn basic skills (reading, writing) may be sufficient reason for that child to be considered dyslexic when no other situation justifies such difficulties occurs. And if this diagnosis is not made on time, the special help the child needs is delayed or never comes.

Two types are cited as reasons for dyslexia. On the one hand, neurophysiological reasons because the nervous system comes slower, and on the other, psychic conflicts as a result of the pressures and environmental tensions that the child lives.

Poor lateralization

Lateralization is the process that the child lives to impose on one another. Normally, the lateralization is not fixed until 5 or 6 years, but there are children who from young age clearly explain the superiority of one side.

And most cases of dyslexia occur in children who do not have that well-defined superiority. Laterality affects psychomotricity, so children with poorly defined laterality are often quite clumsy in manual tasks, and the graphic lines of their drawings are of little coordination.

Psychomotor disorders

Normally, dyslexic children make clumsy movements. They lack pace and balance and find it hard to stand on a foot, jump, ride a bike or ride a line, for example.

Alterations in perception

They often make numerous mistakes in spatial perception, in the concepts above/below, or forward/backward. And that makes it difficult for them to read and write.

Characteristics of dyslexic children

Lack of age. The intellectual effort they have to make to overcome their difficulties in perception makes fatigue very intense. Therefore, reading or writing seems dry, things without interest, because they find nothing that deserves so much effort. Disinterest in studies. On the one hand, the lack of intelligence and, on the other, the familiar and school environment that they usually live (hardly offer them stimuli) prevents them from taking an interest in school work. Therefore, school performance and results are very poor. Inadaptation. Dyslexic children, not orienting themselves well in space and time, feel without reference points, so their reactions are not normally as stable as their own age. And, even if it seems a lie, as a compensation mechanism, they show excessive self-confidence (which reaches a point of pride). Consequently, they defend their opinions until the end.

General lines of treatment

Since dyslexia can take very different forms and forms, it is clear that the treatment should be fully adapted and personalized. Currently, therapies try to make available to the dyslexic all the tools your brain needs, so that the child properly processes what receives his vision. For this you are taught tricks to memorize or taught to associate a specific image with a word.

Of course, the results are not immediate, but with the right help (the work of the psychologist and teacher and school support) the child learns to control his or her disorder.

We must not forget the importance of early diagnosis and prevention. Faced with the emergence of the first difficulties, we must face the problem leaving aside panic and excessive sanctions. And it must be taken into account that these alterations that the child has are never “cured” at all, so the treatment should be durable and adapted to the age of the child.

Dyslexia Screening Test The British Dyslexia Association proposes this test to detect dyslexia. With three or four affirmative answers to these questions, the child may have some degree of dyslexia. So go to the doctor. Before 8 years Did the child just learn to speak? Do you still find it hard to read or write and you, as a parent, find it a disturbing delay? On other topics that do not require reading or writing, does the child seem quick and intelligent? Write reversed letters or figures? When you learned to make sums and subtraction, did you need more time than other children to help with fingers or make marks on paper? And do you have problems with product tables? Do you have difficulty differentiating the right from the left? Are the movements more clumsy than those of your age? After 8 years When writing, do you make serious spelling mistakes by placing the letters “eating” or placing them in an incorrect order (instead of passing, for example, writing sapatu)? Is it wrong to read and he does not realize? Are you often unable to understand and explain what you just read? Does it cost you to copy what is written on the blackboard or on another paper? Do you sometimes eat or skip words when reading, or do you read the same line twice? Don't you like to read aloud to others? Still having trouble remembering the multiplication table? Is it easily disoriented and confused right and left? Do you think you have little self-confidence and little esteem?

How to recognize that it is a dyslexic? Normally, the problem is detected at about 6 years, age at which they are fully immersed in the reading/writing process. However, it is necessary for the teacher and parents to be attentive to different signs to realize that the child learns more slowly than his friends. Signs of dyslexia or other disturbance like this are: Read very slowly. Read by letters instead of whole words. Do not understand what you have read. Do not respect score, do not report to sentence. Reverse letters into a word (say, “sapatu” instead of “pass”). Home screening is not easy, as parents need another reference to compare their child to others. And if this comparison is not made, parents find it normal and appropriate for their age what their child does, even if not.