ok so after reading the are you a grammar nazi thread its obvious some people dont see dyslexia as being an excuse for having bad grammar and spelling, but it is.
and i know general chat is for fun and normal chat but i thought it would be good to have a dyslexia thread because it is hard to deal with and especially when alot of people dont see it as a learing disability because its "only" dyslexia.
so here are the symptons
[edit] Signs and symptoms
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Characteristics of dyslexia.
Dyslexia symptoms vary according to the severity of the disorder as well as the age of the individual.
Pre-school age children It is difficult to obtain a certain diagnosis of dyslexia before a child begins school, but many dyslexic individuals have a history of difficulties that began well before kindergarten. Children who exhibit these symptoms have a higher risk of being diagnosed as dyslexic than other children. Some of these symptoms are:
- Delay in learning to speak
- Learns new words slowly
- Has difficulty rhyming words, as in nursery rhymes
- Late in establishing a dominant hand
Early elementary school-age children
- Difficulty learning the alphabet
- Difficulty with associating sounds with the letters that represent them (sound-symbol correspondence)
- Difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words (phonological awareness)
- Difficulty segmenting words into individual sounds, or blending sounds to make words (phonemic awareness)
- Difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems
- Difficulty learning to decode words
- Confusion with before/after, right/left, over/under, and so on
- Difficulty distinguishing between similar sounds in words; mixing up sounds in multisyllable words (auditory discrimination) (for example, "aminal" for animal, "bisghetti" for spaghetti)
Older elementary school children
- Slow or inaccurate reading
- Very poor spelling
- Difficulty associating individual words with their correct meanings
- Difficulty with time keeping and concept of time
- Difficulty with organization skills
- Due to fear of speaking incorrectly, some children become withdrawn and shy or become bullies out of their inability to understand the social cues in their environment
- Difficulty comprehending rapid instructions, following more than one command at a time or remembering the sequence of things
- Reversals of letters (b for d) and a reversal of words (saw for was) are typical among children who have dyslexia. Reversals are also common for children age 6 and younger who don't have dyslexia. But with dyslexia, the reversals persist.
- Children with dyslexia may fail to see (and occasionally to hear) similarities and differences in letters and words, may not recognize the spacing that organizes letters into separate words, and may be unable to sound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word.
ok i'll start
hi im spongebob i have dyslexia, i was diagnosed with it when i was 16/17 at college. the schools i went to refused to believe that i was. they knew i was dyslexic but kept saying it was borderline, once going to college it was found out that i am serverly dyslexic.
all school have to pay extra for pupils if they have learning difficulties and dont get any funding back from the government so they try and lie about who has them so if its "less servere" difficulties then they say they dont have them. i had no extra help until i turned 15 when we had a sub for 6 months due to my teacher having cancer she stayed behind with me every day after school to help. she knew it was important to me because i was in top set i managed to get a high C for my english GCSE.
your turn peoples :)