Monday, June 23, 2014

Facts About The Reading Disorders

By Sherry Gross


It is actually nice to engage yourself in reading a lot of books. Needless to say, it can make you smarter due to the endless things you will know when you open a page. But other than that, you will also find it entertaining to formulate visualizations in your brain when decoding stories and various literature books. You will surely enjoy the feeling.

But that aside, it also has more benefits rather than just recreation. It helps you with your academic accomplishments and your dealings with your everyday life too. Basically, this skill holds a great significance to your understanding of circumstances and instructions in order to do things right. That is why it is important to know how to read. But if there are factors impeding your understanding of written words, then you might have some kind of reading disorders.

A reading disorder is actually an impairment in the ability of a person to read. It basically affects the comprehension, speed, and accuracy of a person to read in a case which is serious enough to cause an impediment to the success of ones academic achievement and daily dealings with people. This disability is also commonly known as 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 basically, the common issues met by the sufferers of this are the following. One is the lack of comprehension skills during reading whether it is oral or silent. Aside from that, is the event of word omission and the reversal of letters and words. Still another case is the difficulty in decoding words and associating them with sounds. Not only that, they also have poor vocabulary.

Basically, the cause of this disability has been identified by researchers as the effect of mutations of specific genes which are associated to language skills. It was also discovered that it does not have much to do with genetic inheritance since ninety percent of people with this disability do not come from lineages which have the impairment. It is identified that it pertains to some disability in the brain function especially in the language area.

But since it causes quite a big loss to its suffers, treatments were really sought. Seeing the features of the disorder, it has been agreed upon that the treatment be customized since every disorder vary from person to person. With this, there have already been several institutions which provide the remedy to this so people who suffer from the disability can afford rehabilitation.




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