Facts About The Reading Disorders

By Sherry Gross


Reading is actually one of the most entertaining hobbies. It gives one an experience which is similar to that of watching films. However, many says that reading is more fun since you are the ones who will generate the visualizations and you would feel the situations more vividly as if you are the protagonist in the story.

But aside from the joy and recreation it brings, it also benefits you a lot. Basically, it assists you in your struggles with your academic endeavors as well as with your dealings with life. Given this, the skill of knowing how to read holds a very valuable role in life. But there are some disabilities which can which cause some impediments in the skill called the reading disorders.

This situation is basically identified when there is a significant impairment in the reading ability of a person such as accuracy, speed, and comprehension. Basically, this is diagnosed if the effect is very significant as to cause an interference in the academic achievement and the daily interaction of people. This disorder is most commonly known for the term dyslexia.

However, with dyslexia, the only deficits that are tackled are the deficits in writing and spelling. But with this disorder, the case is associated with learning disorder. Basically, learning disability is defined as the case where there is a significant disparity with ones general intelligence and skills. So it means that even with normal intelligence, one finds reading extremely difficult.

It is actually far from the assumption that one who has this disorder is not at all intelligent, but that, it is part of the many learning disorders. Speaking of learning disorders, they actually refer to some kind of difficulty in learning as well as poor performance in academics. However, it is not associated to low intelligence, mental retardation, lack of learning opportunities, and other common learning disabilities.

They basically continue to exist even in individuals with normal IQ, learning motivation, and sufficient opportunities for education. It is only that there is a significant gap between actual achievement and the performance level. It is actually just like the case of those who find the english subject or math subject incredibly hard to learn.

So common problems which people with this impairment have include the following. One is poor comprehension when reading a material either orally or silently. Another is omission of words and reversal of letters. Aside from that, they may also encounter difficulty in decoding single words and associating them with sounds. They also have limited vocabulary.

With several studies, researches found out that the cause of this disorder is due to some mutations of genes corresponding to the language skills and that it is not necessarily inherited. That is because the ninety percent of individuals who have this do not belong to families with a history of the disorder. It is just that there is some malfunction in the language lobe of the brain.

But due to the effect which this disability can cause, several treatments where formulated in order to aid people who possess it. Generally, it is agreed that a customized education is needed to remedy this. So that means that individuals with the impairment should attain a different instruction, and speaking of this, there are several establishments that cater to this.




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