What is Dyslexia?
What is Dyslexia?
The term Dyslexia was derived from the Greek (Dys meaning difficulty with and lexia meaning language).
The condition of Dyslexia is under constant research. Science considers the condition to be a result of how the brain processes information. In other words it is a processing difference rather than a processing difficulty and provides the dyslexic person with advantages as well as disadvantages.
In today’s world dyslexia now comes under the banner of Neurodiversity. Dyslexia means a ‘specific learning difficulty’ that affects reading, writing, spelling, processing letters, short term memory, and cognition. For educational purposes Dyslexia was defined by the *Rose Report as “a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent reading and spelling” and that “characteristic features of dyslexia are difficulties in phonological awareness, verbal memory and verbal processing”.
Indications of Dyslexia
Some tasks a dyslexic may have trouble with:
- Sequencing letters within words.
- Matching sounds to letters.
- Using phonics.
- Blending or segmenting sounds within words.
- Short term memory.
- Acting upon instructions.
- Reading comprehension.
- Avoids reading.
- Written composition.
- Demonstrates a significant difference between spoken and written abilities.