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 other than serving as a recreation, it also benefits you in a lot of positive and helpful way. Basically, it helps you with your daily dealings and academic accomplishments. That is why this skill holds a very great place in your accomplishment. But there are actually cases when this engagement does not serve to be enjoyable but a nightmare instead. That situation is called 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.

So it does not follow that one with this impairment has a low IQ because this is basically part of a learning disorder. The case of learning disorders is actually that which is refers to a kind of difficulty which can lead to poor academic performance. However, it is not related with low intelligence, lack of opportunities for learning, mental retardation, and physical disabilities.

It is just that this impairment persists even to people who are of normal intelligence, sufficient educational opportunities, and the motivation to learn how to read. It this impairment, there is a very valuable gap between the expected performance level as well as the actual achievement. So it is very much like the case of those with mathematical and language disorders.

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.

Actually, the cause of this disability has some issue with brain function. Researchers have identified that the impairment is actually caused by some genetic mutation in the language area. So it does not necessarily point out to genetic inheritance since ninety percent of the population of sufferers do not have a family history with the disability.

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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