Symptoms of Dyslexia

Dyslexia is become phenomenon since this disease or whatever it’s called in medicine term, caused many children disability in reading. Actually, what did happen to them. Most of dyslexia patient has good intelligent but can you stand in their world with your world always floating or moving, sometime words which is going to be read just disappear ? This is what they face everyday. Many people said that dyslexia is only students difficulty in reading or concentrate, however, Dyslexia may also show up in math, writing, handwriting, or spelling. Some Dyslexia could read so well but give them some math problems, and they fall apart. Also, they may not reverse letters or numbers. They may have an auditory form of dyslexia. Some of these kids can’t focus because they hear the computer whirring away but only hear every third or fourth word the teacher might say.
So, how do you know if your child has dyslexia? Following are some general symptoms of dyslexia that can serve as a guide for the steps you need to take if your child has these symptoms.
• Slow, labored inaccurate reading of single words in isolation
• Slow, choppy oral reading while ignoring punctuation
• Becomes visibly tired after reading for a short time
• Poor reading comprehension
• When reading, frequently reverses, inverts, or transposes letters or words
• Substitutes similar looking words, even if it changes the meaning of the sentence, such as sunrise for surprise
• Omits or changes suffixes, such as need for needed
• Spelling errors of reversals, inversions, or transpositions
• Continually misspells sight words or misreads sight words
• Written work shows signs of spelling uncertainty
• Misspells even when copying something from the board or from a book
• Unusual pencil grip when writing, often with the thumb on top of the fingers – a fist grip
• May hold the pencil lower or higher than normal
• The pencil grip is so tight that the child’s hand cramps
• Writing letters is a slow, labored, non-fluent chore
• Writes letters with unusual starting and ending points
• Has great difficulty getting letters to sit on horizontal lines
• Unusual spatial organization of the page. Words may be widely spaced or tightly pushed together. Margins are often ignored
• Has an unusually difficult time learning and using cursive writing
• Writes extremely short sentences
• Takes an unusually long time to write
• Displays very poor mastery of punctuation as well as grammar, syntax, and suffixes
• Misspells many words
• Has nearly illegible handwriting
• Uses space poorly on the page
• Misses many errors in written work even when proofreading has been attempted
• Left-right confusion, mainly showing up in handwriting and math
• Difficulty in directionality – confuses north and south or the meaning of words such as right – left
• Tying shoelaces is difficult
• Difficult time writing capital cursive letters
• Long division, fractions, and memorizing multiplication tables is difficult
• Touch typing is difficult
• Learning science and history facts is difficult
• Concepts of time and calendars are difficult
• Disorganized personal space
• Loses many personal items such as clothing, watches, papers, books, shoes
If your child has many of these symptoms, he may be dyslexic. A test is a good place to start to find out for sure. Or, you can just assume that this is his life and move on from there.
So, how do we still the waters that churn continually in a dyslexic child’s mind? For starters, brain exercises must come into play. To calm these waters the brain must become balanced. Ear eights, eye eights, cross crawls, magic eights, and mirrors are exercises that can be used regularly with the dyslexic child.