Dyslexia - Reading deficiency

Dyslexia is a deficiency which interferes with the learning process of reading and writing. People are not born with the capacity of reading. It has to be taught. Dyslexic people do not have a lower IQ and acquire new information as fast and as properly as regular persons. The only process that gives them troubles is that of reading and this interferes with the study of several disciplines.
Other synonyms for dyslexia are: reading deficiency or reading incapacity.

Reading is a complex cognitive process. Children learn how to read by deciphering sounds that make up words.
For dyslexic children this process is a bit different. They have problems in deciphering phenomena and that is why they have problems in learning how to read and write.
Dyslexic children may also have problems in planning and organizing different things as well as in solving mathematical exercises.
Even thought dyslexia seems to be an inherited deficiency, its exact causes have not been discovered yet.

The signs of a dyslexic deficiency vary according to age.

However, if a children present some of the following symptoms, they have to be tested.
1. For kinder garden children :
- they may start to speak later than the other children;
- they may have greater difficulties in pronouncing words that other children;
- they may have problems in learning new words and remembering the right word;
- they may have problems in learning the alphabet, the days of the week, the months of the year, colors , shapes, problems in reading and writing their own names;

2. For kinder garden children till fourth grade children :
- may have problems in reading words which are not surrounded by other words;
- may have problems in understanding the connection between words and sounds;
- may make constant reading and writing mistakes;

3. For children from fifth grade to eight grade :
- they may read at a lower level than the expected one;
- they may avoid reading out loud;
- they may have difficulties in solving math problems which are written in words not numbers;
- they may have difficulties in remembering things;
- they may avoid writing;

4. For high school youngsters :
- they may read very slow and inaccurately;
- they may have the tendency to avoid tests which imply reading and writing;
- they may have problems in resuming what they read;
- they may not be able to remember what they read

5. For adults :
- they may have the tendency to hide their reading problems;
- they may have problems in organizing and planning events in their lives.
- they may rely on others to write for them;
- they may have difficulties in organizing their time.