If your child has a dyslexia, the correct support can help him to achieve success in school and in further life.
The dyslexia is a problem with recognition, understanding of letters and words, inability to training. It is also called specific inability to training. The dyslexia is a neurobiological state. It means that the brain of people works with a disease not as a brain of other people.
Reasons
We do not know what causes a dyslexia. But it is authentically known that it tends to proceed in families in which one or both parents transmit it to the children through genes.
Signs
Symptoms the diseases are often detected in the first two years of training at school, usually, when children begin to learn to read. Before children go to school, it is a little more difficult to define whether they have this frustration. But there are some signs and symptoms:
- late began to speak;
- cannot connect together similar words - for example, "a cat, a bat, a hat";
- cannot repeat a part of children's verses.
When your child goes to school, at him the dyslexia can develop if it:
- hardly reads one word;
- has difficulties with spelling;
- very much tries to see similarities and differences in words;
- reads below the expected level for the age;
- has problems with storing of the sequence of things;
- cannot understand fast instructions.
Your teenage child can have this illness if it:
- tries to read and write, but leaves very badly;
- avoids to read books aloud;
- difficult summarizes stories;
- difficult remembers things.
Diagnostics
If you in family had difficulties with reading or you are concerned by the fact that your child has problems at school, especially with recognition and understanding of words, you can take several steps for diagnosis.
Talk to the teacher of your child
The first step is to talk to the teacher of your child. You can ask questions of how at it the situation with reading and spelling is. Perhaps, it is also worth talking to the teacher about how your child treats school.
Ask to estimate (to test)
At this stage the logopedist and the psychologist can be involved . They will help to check all possible reasons of difficulties in training of your child.
Specialized support for your child
The dyslexia cannot be "cured". But with time and specialized support many people learn to improve the language skills and skills of reading. Your child can get such support as:
- individual classes
- extra time for passing of tests
- the specialized computer software - for example, spellchecking and transformation of the speech to the text.
The earlier the child will receive the help of the expert, the it is more at him than chances of success. There is no wonderful dyslexia medicine", despite some advertisements. But there are many easy, useful and productive ways to help children with difficulties with training. For example, you can talk to your general practitioner, the pediatrician, the teacher of your child or the psychologist.
What you can make
Help the child to raise a self-assessment and to be sure of his abilities. For example, encourage and you praise efforts and progress of your child, whether it be in a class or in other areas, such as sport, theater or music.
Talk to the child. For example: "Do not allow what occurred today, to upset you. A little more time and practicians just can be necessary for you to make it it is correct".
Keep in close connection with the child's teacher.
Try to find time to read together. The bonus is that this special time for both of you.