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 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.

This disorder is identified if there is a recognizable impairment in reading such as in speed, accuracy, and comprehension. But it is only diagnosed to be a disability if the impairment goes to as much as affecting the academic achievement of a person as well as his daily living. In other terms, people call this disability as dyslexia.

But it is not quite the case, since dyslexia usually involves deficits in the area of spelling and writing. Basically, this disorder is defined as a learning disorder which is characterized by a valuable disparity between the general intelligence of the person and his skills in reading. It is the case where one experiences severe difficulty in displaying the skill even with normal intelligence.

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.

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 here are the common issues faced by the people who suffer from this disability. Initially, the individual finds it hard to comprehend a material either with oral or silent reading. Another thing is that they can omit words or reverse them and some letters. Other than that, they also find it difficult to decode single word and associate them with sounds, and they have a 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 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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