Dyslexia is about Reading and writing. What is the name for someone who cannot pronounce certain sounds eg 'sh
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Yeah, it's a speech impediment, but it can be corrected when young by going to a speech therapist.... I went to one because i pronounced Ts as Ks and couldn't pronounce Cs
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Of course not!  Dyslexia means your brain is wired DIFFERENTLY than most people, which makes reading harder for you.\n\nHowever, that "different wiring" means that you do lots of other things BETTER than other people. \n\nYou are probably good at one or more of the following:\n--Putting together kits and puzzles\n--doing math or geometry\n--sports and other complex physical activities\n--woodworking\n--gardening or agriculture\n--music\n--drawing, painting, and/or sculpture\n--keeping people entertained by telling fun stories out loud\n--knowing the right thing to say to someone\n\nWell, the list could keep going, but you get the idea. Make a list for yourself of the things you do well. Reading and writing are NOT who you are. They are just tools you need to get your work done.
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im really surprised that your five year old preschoolers even understand that the dyslexic child is different. most 5 year old children accept and respond well to all other kids whether they are handicapped or different. my son went to preschool with a mainstreamed down syndrome child and had no clue he was any different.
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Individuals with Disabilities.\nNever refer to a person who is Deaf by their disability, such as The Deaf Person...or a person who is Visually Impaired as a Blind Person.
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i have a son who is dyslexic and it made me realize that everything that we do on a daily basis involves language. unfortunately he feels that he is stupid because he has difficulty reading and writing but he is a mechanical genius.  what god takes away in one area he makes up for in another .  people who are rude about this have no compassion and if u ask me they are ignorant in their own way.
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The best method is to have a school psychologist do an evaluation of the child's abilities, achievement, and functioning in school. These services are available without charge to children in public and private schools who are suspected of a learning problem. If you are a parent talk with your child's school counselor or school principal. Don't be put off if they are skeptical. Write a letter to the principal saying that you believe that your child has a learning problem and that you want him or her evaluated for this.\n\nDyslexia is a type of learning disability, and is often called specific learning disability in reading. \n\nYou can also find a school psychologist or other child psychologist in private practice if you want to have an evaluation outside of school. \n\nThere is lots of information on dyslexia online, but be aware that there is lots of misinformation and lots of websites put up by people who want to sell you treatment that is of dubious value. So beware! A few good resources are listed below.
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I have dyslexia.  I live with it, it is part of me.  I think it would be wrong to attempt to "cure" it.  Although my spelling is awful (as you can probably tell - I will not use the spell check on this so you get the idea) and I would hardly make a professional cricket fielder I think that I have some benefits from dyslexia which although not obvious are still there.  Like how autistic people are often super-numerate.\nBasically our minds all work in different ways and dyslexia is one of these differences.  You should try to ensure your daughter is happy and can cope with her failings and use her strengths, don't try to "fix" things that are not broken and remember "if it seems to good to be true it is".\n\nAnyway that is all I have to contribute on this matter.  Have a great day.
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Just blow man! I appreciate the time you took to write this you obviously have a lot of difficulty reading and writing words.  Just ignore any sad dorks who come on and criticise your spelling, by the way.\n\nMusic is quite a different system from writing words, so don't think that because you are dyslexic, that would apply to music.  Learning to write music takes a bit of time - especially the rhythm.  \n\nOne more point - I guess you know the names of the notes on your instruments.  There are plenty of websites which will show you the rudiments of music. Here's a start: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=rudiments+of+music\n\nKeep playing where ever you can. Find sessions in local bars or clubs, ask other musicians to help you with learning to read and write music
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If he DOES NOT "see" the letters correctly, that is NOT just dyslexia. It is probably because he also needs visual therapy through an occupational therapist and/or vision specialist. Ask a local OT working with the public schools about who they recommend for the diagnosis and therapy plan (usually an opthamologist, but not every opthamologist has the correct training for this).\n\nhttp://www.vision-therapy.com/About_Vision.htm\n\nhttp://www.memorialhospital.org/OccupationalTherapy.htm\n\nhttp://www.hollywoodvision.com/html/vision_therapy.html\n\nHere are some simple activities for you to do while you are waiting on the diagnosis and therapy plan:\nhttp://www.turningpointtechnology.com/Software/TF/Eye%20Track%20Software.htm\n\nContinue to provide phonics instruction. If you have the proper training for LD phonics remediation, you also know that there is a developmental "click" or "leap" that occurs. The constant exposure to phonics means that he'll suddenly be able to apply it, and show a huge gain in his reading level over only a couple of months, WHEN HE IS READY PHYSIOLOGICALLY.\n\nIf he is having vision issues, teach him the phonics rules through oral recitiation while you do the exercises the OT or vision specialist give you. Don't forget to keep building on his knowledge, starting with "vowel plus consonant is short," all the way up to the three sounds of "s", the five sounds of "ough," etc., even if he's not visually perceiving the letters at that point. Take it slow... the more advanced rules may not be something you hit until next year.\n\nYou should also have him play "catch" with you (start with a soft, larger ball like a kickball), do very simple (preschool) mazes and gradually work up in difficulty (VERY gradually), etc. My guess is that when he attempts a maze, he can't make heads or tails of it right now.
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Some I ran into:\n\nBe careful that they are learning to read the words and not just memorizing them.\n\nUnderstanding phonics is a big one.\n\nTwo letter sounds "ee" "ea" "ou".\n\nThe silent "e" rule.\n\nDo not push them beyond their limits time wise or level of book wise.  Time you will know, when they get antcy or stop paying attention, etc.  Let them pick the book to use, if its too hard that is okay, but they will realize their limits and see progress that way.
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Spelling and pronounciation.
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Everyone's different.  That's the main thing.\n\nI was diagnosed as dyslexic when I was eight.  I'm in college now.  I take all my own notes, and make good grades (or did last I checked, which was semester before last - don't ask).  I've never liked to read, and generally can't make myself do it for more than a minute or two.  I run into problems just trying to read a few sentence word problem for physics, let alone 50 pages of Greek history, but I've learned ways to do well without doing much fo the reading.\n\nSpecial classes may have helped you.  I was in mainstream classes my whole life, though, so that's certainly not the only way to adapt.  But my mom is a psychologist with a lot of experience with learning disabilities, so that helped a lot.  To me, one of the main things was just that I've known since I was little that the reason I had trouble with certain things was that I was dyslexic, and not that I just wasn't smart enough.  I would think that being in special classes might have done the same thing for you (depending on the classes of course - being put in special classes can also have exactly the opposite effect on kids).\n\nDyslexia varies a lot in it's severity.  It's not really an all or nothing thing - there are different degrees of it.  Dyslexia is diagnosed basically based on a failure to learn certain skills (most notably reading) where there's no overall cognative deficit.  There are other diagnostic criteria that can be used, but the most common reason a kid is diagnosed as dyslexic is because based on their overall intelligence they should be reading at or above grade level, but they're significantly behind.  The thing is, there are a million and a half different physical anomilies that could cause that, so not all dyslexic kids are the same.\n\nShe might be more severely dyslexic than you are.  She may have given up trying when she was little because she was told she was stupid, rather than that she was dyslexic, so she's further behind now.  Or, as politically incorrect as this sounds, she may just not be as bright.  Also, some people do use it as an excuse to be lazy and get out of doing work.\n\nI'm rather tired right now, so that wasn't nearly as coherent or comprensive as I'd like it to be, but there's lots of information out there on dyslexia if you want to look for it.  One website I've come across that I like is:\nhttp://www.dys-add.com/index.html\nThere are even whole books written on dyslexia.  I don't know any off the top of my head, but I can find some titles when I'm home over Thanksgiving - just email me if you're interested :)
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They are more likely to have them depending on the cause of the learning disabilities.  \nJust so you know most people with dyslexia get it from pregnancy issues, such as, but not limited to, women drinking and/or doing drugs while they are pregnant, and malnutrition to the mother while pregnant and/or nursing, being deprived of oxygen during birth.  \nDo more research on the learning disabilities, if they are caused by genetics chances are high, if they are caused by abnormalities during pregnancy then the mother needs to take care of herself.
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A learning disability is a diagnosable, clinically significant difference between ability and achievement.  Testing is used to determine the type of deficiency that exists and the severity of the deficiency. A learning disability can be best described as an inability to acquire or relate specific information. It is not a form of mental retardation or intelligence impairment. Learning disabilities can exist in various areas, such as math, reading, or writing. Some of the more common types of learning disabilities are arithmetic deficit, auditory processing, constructional dyspraxia, dsysgraphia, dyslexia, language comprehension, long term memory deficit, reading deficit, short term memory deficit, spatial organization, spelling dyspraxia, traumatic brain injury, visual processing and writing deficit.  Some students may have combinations of these disabilities or have these disabilities in combination with social/emotional adjustment problems.  Accommodation plans try to help compensate for specific deficits.
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If your friend has dyslexia, he needs a trained tutor to be successful in "cracking the code."\n\nTry these websites:\nhttp://www.interdys.org/\nhttp://www.ncld.org/content/view/365/402/\nhttp://www.cete.org/acve/docgen.asp?tbl=digests&ID=42
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Without the ability to read and write it is not possible for a person to communicate in any way but through direct speech. It also eliminates the possibility of recordin knowledge, experience, and manipulate data. It also eliminates the possibility of a person inclined to be creative with words, to make their creations permanent and available to those masses that can read.  Lack of reading skill limits any persons ability to accumulate knowledge rapidly, rather they must learn by personal experience and experimentation. They might spend a life time gaining the knowledge that might be already available in a matter of minutes from a book or other written source.\n\nLock of reading and writing skill eliminates a persons ability to enjoy the fruits of civilation, they are denied all technical knowledge, even the ability to know how many apples they have in one person gives them 2 and onther gives them 4. They have a picture of the result but cannot calculate who they arrivedat the graphic picture.
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It would be easier for people with learning disabilities to read and write in English if it was phonetic.  However, they would still have to deal with all of the language rules that we have that still confuse even the best readers.