If you walk into a high school in the United States one in five students, or 15-20% of the population, has a language based learning disability. Dyslexia is the most common of the language based learning disabilities. Dyslexia is a disorder that affects how people read interpret words, letters and other symbols but it does not affect the overall general intelligence of a person. “Having a specific learning disability in reading can impact many aspects of a child 's life. Not only does a student have to have good reading skills to make progress in Language Arts, reading is required to learn and communicate knowledge in all academic subjects. Reading is required to be a functioning member of society, as well. As a result, a specific learning
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[Kelsey Beard, a school psychologist at Kings Mountain High School, said kids with dyslexia have a hard time understanding how sounds blend together to make whole words and others have a hard time reading quickly and accurately. Some of these signs of dyslexia regular high school students have and struggle with.] There is no one test that can prove someone has dyslexia only factors doctors will take into consideration when testing someone for dyslexia. [In an article done by Mayo Clinic is describes how doctors will ask many questions to try and see if someone has dyslexia such as a child 's development, educational and medical history, conditions that run in the family, someones homelife.] These questions cannot guarantee that a child has dyslexia. Since there is no real way to determine if someone has dyslexia and that the only main sign of dyslexia is mainly reading comprehension than doctors can be diagnosing people with dyslexia who don 't have …show more content…
They took 131 kids ages seven to 16 and put them into three different groups. These groups were poor readers with an average IQ, poor readers with a low IQ, and a control group of average readers with an average IQ. They all took a reading test to see if they knew if words such as “bait” and “gate” rhymed and while doing this their brains were monitored for activity using MRI scanners. The evidence showed that there was no difference between the brain patterns of children from the two groups of poor readers 80 percent of the time. With this evidence, they came to the conclusion that the theory of diagnosing dyslexia based on someone 's IQ level is not supported.] This experiment is another example of how you cannot determine if someone has a learning disability by comparing them to other students because of child is different. Before people describe someone with dyslexia they should be able to give them a test that they know for sure is gonna be accurate and not have the possibility of them wrongly diagnosing them when they could have something totally different from dyslexia or not even have a learning
[Kelsey Beard, a school psychologist at Kings Mountain High School, said kids with dyslexia have a hard time understanding how sounds blend together to make whole words and others have a hard time reading quickly and accurately. Some of these signs of dyslexia regular high school students have and struggle with.] There is no one test that can prove someone has dyslexia only factors doctors will take into consideration when testing someone for dyslexia. [In an article done by Mayo Clinic is describes how doctors will ask many questions to try and see if someone has dyslexia such as a child 's development, educational and medical history, conditions that run in the family, someones homelife.] These questions cannot guarantee that a child has dyslexia. Since there is no real way to determine if someone has dyslexia and that the only main sign of dyslexia is mainly reading comprehension than doctors can be diagnosing people with dyslexia who don 't have …show more content…
They took 131 kids ages seven to 16 and put them into three different groups. These groups were poor readers with an average IQ, poor readers with a low IQ, and a control group of average readers with an average IQ. They all took a reading test to see if they knew if words such as “bait” and “gate” rhymed and while doing this their brains were monitored for activity using MRI scanners. The evidence showed that there was no difference between the brain patterns of children from the two groups of poor readers 80 percent of the time. With this evidence, they came to the conclusion that the theory of diagnosing dyslexia based on someone 's IQ level is not supported.] This experiment is another example of how you cannot determine if someone has a learning disability by comparing them to other students because of child is different. Before people describe someone with dyslexia they should be able to give them a test that they know for sure is gonna be accurate and not have the possibility of them wrongly diagnosing them when they could have something totally different from dyslexia or not even have a learning