If you are concerned that you or your child has dyslexia, one of the first places most people look for symptoms is the Internet. Of course the Internet is a tremendous reference for information on this type of reading disorder, but if you look around, you will find evidence of many different signs, so why should this be so?
It is only in recent years that dyslexia has been accepted in many schools, but even with the great advances made in schools, there are rarely enough available resources to cope sufficiently with this issue. One of the biggest problems with children and adult dyslexics is that the disorder is often treated as a single entity with only one type of remediation. This is likely to be the primary reason for some of the inconsistencies in the reporting of symptoms of dyslexia and in how successful some remediation programs are.
There are a many possible symptoms that are related to dyslexia. However, consider now that everyone is an individual and when we do something, we all tend to do it in a different way. It therefore stands to reason that there will be individual differences in how dyslexia will manifest itself.
There has been a lot of evidence produced to support the idea of different sub-types of dyslexia, both developmental (from childhood) and acquired (i.e. as a result of an accident or disease). Although there are several reasons for dyslexia, the primary sub-types are known as phonological or surface dyslexia. Both of these sub-types exhibit symptoms of dyslexia that contrast each other.
The main problem for phonological dyslexics is the inability to segment individual sounds. In pure cases, they can be distinguished by their difficulty, or complete inability to read novel or made up words. In contrast, surface dyslexics have no problem with reading novel or made up words. However, they will have a difficulty in storing whole word representations, this leading to the decoding of many words by their individual sounds. Given the nature of the English language, there are many words that do not follow spelling-to-sound rules. For example, the word 'yacht' could produce 'yatch' for a surface dyslexic. You will find that spelling is usually poor for all dyslexics and spelling errors tend to show similar types of errors as with reading aloud. All types of dyslexics will be slow readers and although adults may have learned to compensate for their problems, their slow reading speed will endure into adulthood.
In summary, a basic distinction between the two pure types of dyslexia are that one will have difficulty reading novel words, while the other will have more problems in reading aloud words that do not follow the spelling-to-sound rules. In addition, another common occurrence is a mixed type of dyslexia where there may be difficulties with both processes. It is therefore suggested that the reason websites differ in their definitions of dyslexia is because of these different types.
It is only in recent years that dyslexia has been accepted in many schools, but even with the great advances made in schools, there are rarely enough available resources to cope sufficiently with this issue. One of the biggest problems with children and adult dyslexics is that the disorder is often treated as a single entity with only one type of remediation. This is likely to be the primary reason for some of the inconsistencies in the reporting of symptoms of dyslexia and in how successful some remediation programs are.
There are a many possible symptoms that are related to dyslexia. However, consider now that everyone is an individual and when we do something, we all tend to do it in a different way. It therefore stands to reason that there will be individual differences in how dyslexia will manifest itself.
There has been a lot of evidence produced to support the idea of different sub-types of dyslexia, both developmental (from childhood) and acquired (i.e. as a result of an accident or disease). Although there are several reasons for dyslexia, the primary sub-types are known as phonological or surface dyslexia. Both of these sub-types exhibit symptoms of dyslexia that contrast each other.
The main problem for phonological dyslexics is the inability to segment individual sounds. In pure cases, they can be distinguished by their difficulty, or complete inability to read novel or made up words. In contrast, surface dyslexics have no problem with reading novel or made up words. However, they will have a difficulty in storing whole word representations, this leading to the decoding of many words by their individual sounds. Given the nature of the English language, there are many words that do not follow spelling-to-sound rules. For example, the word 'yacht' could produce 'yatch' for a surface dyslexic. You will find that spelling is usually poor for all dyslexics and spelling errors tend to show similar types of errors as with reading aloud. All types of dyslexics will be slow readers and although adults may have learned to compensate for their problems, their slow reading speed will endure into adulthood.
In summary, a basic distinction between the two pure types of dyslexia are that one will have difficulty reading novel words, while the other will have more problems in reading aloud words that do not follow the spelling-to-sound rules. In addition, another common occurrence is a mixed type of dyslexia where there may be difficulties with both processes. It is therefore suggested that the reason websites differ in their definitions of dyslexia is because of these different types.
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