Essays Tagged: "Dyslexia"
Dyslexia - the cause study
Any discussion of the causes of dyslexia must, as we shall see, be a complex and controversial undertaking; even the title may raise ... all see, be a complex and controversial undertaking; even the title may raise controversy: what is 'dyslexia'? Is it the same as 'specific learning difficulties'? Can it be defined as a single problem ... ry few satisfactory answers. For this reason, it is necessary to begin with a working definition of dyslexia, before discussing what may cause it. Once this has been established, it will be seen that ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Learning disorders, empasizes on dyslexia
The following paper discusses learning disorders, specifically, dyslexia, that are present within school age children between the ages of seven and twelve. During t ... fficulties (Silver, 1993, p.109). On the other hand, children with learning disorders, specifically dyslexia, struggle to grasp these concepts because they have visual perception problems.When a child ... United States undergo this problem and are said to have a reading disorder, caused by and known as dyslexia.Many studies have been conducted to find out more about this disorder; however, they all se ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Dyslexia awarness in teaching adult students. word count 1576 words
DYSLEXIA AWARENESSCONTEXTI wrote the course outline, syllabus and schemes of work for The Indian Hea ... .·Proforma sheets for record keeping.·OHP's for when I teach in a college environment.DYSLEXIA AWARENESSIf a student cannot learn the way we teach,we must teach the way they can learn.Th ... is creative, good at grasping concepts, patterns and "wholes," which are some of the indicators of dyslexia.I would need to be aware that students with learning difficulties could need help with orga ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Dyslexia
asic overview and study well writtenThe following paper discusses learning disorders, specifically, dyslexia, that are present within school age children between the ages of seven and twelve. During t ... fficulties (Silver, 1993, p.109). On the other hand, children with learning disorders, specifically dyslexia, struggle to grasp these concepts because they have visual perception problems.When a child ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Describes What a Learning disability is a focuses on dyslexia
ility), 109 (2), 37.How Can This Be? 1The learning disability I choose to define and write about is dyslexia. The article was intended for a general audience, as to inform them of the signs, frustrati ... for a general audience, as to inform them of the signs, frustrations and anxieties of a person with dyslexia may encounter.Dyslexia according to the current definition is a "specific learning disabili ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
" discuss the range of diversity in learning needs which may be encountered by the primary school practitioner.
educational needs.2: the range of diversity in learning needs.3: overview of chosen learning need 'dyslexia'.4: how does it feel to be dyslexic?5: how is it dealt with in the classroom?6: suggested l ... arning difficulty that affects most aspects of learning. Specific Learning Difficulties may include Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, and ADHD etc.Current perspectives are geared towards fostering teacher confiden ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Dyslexia.
Dyslexia: A condition some people are born with, which is primarilycharacterized by difficulty with ... A condition some people are born with, which is primarilycharacterized by difficulty with language.Dyslexia is one of several distinct learning disabilities. It is a specificlanguage-based disorder o ... are not the resultof generalized developmental disability or sensory impairment.Common problems of dyslexia are slowness at acquiring spoken languageand difficulties with speech such as a lisp, or a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
This is an outline of an essay about dyslexia.
school children have been diagnosed with a learning disability; eighty percent of the diagnoses are dyslexia-related. But some studies indicate that up to twenty percent of the population may have som ... ated. But some studies indicate that up to twenty percent of the population may have some degree of dyslexia.1.Dyslexia, what is it?2.Causes and Symptoms3.TreatmentII.First Main Point:A. Dyslexia is d ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Dyslexia Children
Dyslexia, common in children, is a learning disorder in which an individual has difficulty reading d ... is a difference in the brain architecture that causes a certain part of the brain of a person with dyslexia to have trouble decoding the written word. There are over 20 million children in the United ... in the United States between the ages of 5 and 9 and as many as 1 to 2.4 million of them could have dyslexia.Dyslexia can be caused in two ways, by inherited factors and by hearing problems at an earl ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Special Needs Report: Dyslexia This report is about a special need of an elementary school child that one may encounter as a teacher. The special need discussed here is about dyslexia.
The special need that I decided to research is Dyslexia. 'Dys' means 'difficulty' and 'lexia 'means 'words'. Dyslexia is a disorder that affects mi ... ding, usually reflecting not enough phonological processing skills. It is unclear as to what causes dyslexia, but some research has come up with at least two causes. One is by inherited factors and th ... erited factors and the other by hearing problems at an early age.Some of the well-known symptoms of dyslexia are the confusion over the direction letters face, difficulties with left and right, proble ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Dyslexia
named spot. He is a good doggie." This is what a dyslexic would see if given that sentence to read. Dyslexia is a learning disability that directly affects one's ability to read but flipping words or ... n making it difficult to read and/or comprehend a simple sentence such as the one shown previously. Dyslexia comes from the Latin root -dys meaning difficulty and the Greek root -lexia meaning reading ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
Discuss at least one possible cause of a named learning difficulty other than autism (e.g. dyslexia, dyscalcylia). Refer to evidence in your answer (12 marks)
One possible cause of dyslexia is that it emanates from neurological (brain) factors. This is a biological explanation. Th ... f the immune system such as asthma and rhemutoid arthritis.One theory which attempts to explain how dyslexia may be caused by problems in the brain is Gerschwinds theory. He claims that high testoster ... in the foetus could lead to damage of the left hemisphere of the brain, which ultimately may cause dyslexia to arise. There is some evidence to support this theory - it is taken from post mortems. Ge ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Mental Disabilities: dyslexia
Dyslexia Dyslexia is a disease that targets the brain. An easy way to explain it is that your ... t's like when your brain finally processes the information and makes sense out of it. When you have dyslexia, your brain doesn't process the picture from your eye fully so you can't really understand ... eye fully so you can't really understand what you're seeing sometimes. This is because someone with dyslexia would process the information with the right side of his/her brain to write and read while ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Oh...How I will miss you!
be even something that is extremely important. It isn't like he is trying to, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, a disease that makes your brain cells die, causing most memories to die out. I visit my gr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Mozart Effect for Children book review
awareness. The innovative and experimental uses of music and sound can improve listening disorders, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, autism, and other mental and physical disorders. This definiti ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is one of the several distinct learning disabilities. It is a specific language-based disor ... culties in single word decoding, usually reflecting insufficient phonological processing abilities. Dyslexia is manifested by variable difficulty with different forms of language, often including, in ... Up Kit, is a highly effective approach that teaches the dyslexic student how to read.The causes for dyslexia are neurobiological and genetic. Research shows that individuals inherit the genetic links ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Is dyslexia a specific form of language impairment?
Dyslexia may be defined as " a specific language based disorder of constitutional origin characteriz ... e et al 2004). Currently there is a vast array of research focusing on trying to define and explain dyslexia, however there still lies some disputes as to what causes this disability. Central to these ... to be comprised.The Phonological theory has been predominant for around 20 years, this states that dyslexia is a form of language impairment which is "exclusively caused by a cognitive deficit that i ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
GI anatomy Lesson plan
of these students display behaviors that are characteristic of ADHD, three have different types of dyslexia including, reading, phonetics, and letter reversal. One student is deaf and one is non-ambu ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Autism: The Isolated Individual.
Autism is a developmental disability of the brain, much like dyslexia, mental retardation, or attention deficit disorder. Autism is not a form of mental retardat ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The New Zealand Government's Failure to Recognise Dyslexic Secondary Students.
"The New Zealand Government's failure to recognise dyslexia as a Special Learning Disability (SLD) seriously disadvantages a large number of New Zealan ... tackle what seems to be a national literacy crisis (Easton, 1999), a glaring blind-spot persists.Dyslexia. Often referred to as a middle-class syndrome, it is a common term, defined in the Oxford D ... crucial regard. The New Zealand Government recognizes ADD and autism as SLD - it does not recognise dyslexia. Thus they limit access to resources, funding, and appropriate teaching practices to studen ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education