‘A critical analysis of theoretical perspectives related to dyslexia’
In this essay I will be demonstrating the critical understanding of key theoretical perspectives on the cause of dyslexia (phonological processing, magnocellular and cerebellar aspects. I will also be researching and reviewing relevant literature exploring key issues such as identification, co-morbidity, international views on dyslexia. This essay will allow me to study dyslexia in depth and broaden my knowledge on its identifying characteristics and the underlying causes. (Burden 2002) suggests that dyslexia is a ‘convenience term’ because it can embrace a number of different types of difficulties. Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that affects the brain; this means …show more content…
These examples differentiate a mild and a severe aspect of dyslexia and the various ways it affects individuals. However, you may find an individual that shows little identifications from the above and later may have severe difficulty with complex language and in-depth writing. Individuals having difficulty in recognising words this confuses themselves with similar sounding word such as; ‘their’ and ‘there’ or ‘access’ and ‘assess’. Another indication of dyslexia is when an individual makes phonological errors in spelling, for example; ‘f’ for ‘ph’ and ‘b’ instead of ‘d’. They can also have difficulty with words that may end in ‘ie’ or ‘y’. In addition, writing can be a clear indication as the individual may show slow writing skills and may inconsistently use capital and lower case letters. Lastly, their speech development may be very slow this may result to them jumbling words together whilst reading or confusing themselves with words that have a similar sound. Dyslexia is evident when accurate and fluent word reading and/or spelling develops very incompletely or with great …show more content…
The main criticism of the magnocellular hypothesis is that it cannot explain the phonological deficits that are assumed to be corporal in dyslexia. Other critics say that deficits in dyslexia are not generally specific to visual magnocellular functions overall there is consensus in existence of the collaboration between the deficiencies in the magnocellular system and dyslexia. However, there are disagreements on the cultural relationship as several papers have published conflicts and results in this
In this essay I will be demonstrating the critical understanding of key theoretical perspectives on the cause of dyslexia (phonological processing, magnocellular and cerebellar aspects. I will also be researching and reviewing relevant literature exploring key issues such as identification, co-morbidity, international views on dyslexia. This essay will allow me to study dyslexia in depth and broaden my knowledge on its identifying characteristics and the underlying causes. (Burden 2002) suggests that dyslexia is a ‘convenience term’ because it can embrace a number of different types of difficulties. Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that affects the brain; this means …show more content…
These examples differentiate a mild and a severe aspect of dyslexia and the various ways it affects individuals. However, you may find an individual that shows little identifications from the above and later may have severe difficulty with complex language and in-depth writing. Individuals having difficulty in recognising words this confuses themselves with similar sounding word such as; ‘their’ and ‘there’ or ‘access’ and ‘assess’. Another indication of dyslexia is when an individual makes phonological errors in spelling, for example; ‘f’ for ‘ph’ and ‘b’ instead of ‘d’. They can also have difficulty with words that may end in ‘ie’ or ‘y’. In addition, writing can be a clear indication as the individual may show slow writing skills and may inconsistently use capital and lower case letters. Lastly, their speech development may be very slow this may result to them jumbling words together whilst reading or confusing themselves with words that have a similar sound. Dyslexia is evident when accurate and fluent word reading and/or spelling develops very incompletely or with great …show more content…
The main criticism of the magnocellular hypothesis is that it cannot explain the phonological deficits that are assumed to be corporal in dyslexia. Other critics say that deficits in dyslexia are not generally specific to visual magnocellular functions overall there is consensus in existence of the collaboration between the deficiencies in the magnocellular system and dyslexia. However, there are disagreements on the cultural relationship as several papers have published conflicts and results in this