Dyslexic Person Analysis

How Does the Brain of a Dyslexic Person Function in Contrast to the Brain of a Non-Dyslexic Person?
What is dyslexia? This question seems to be on repeat in my family’s conversations. Right now, my family is in the process of finding out if my seven year old sister has dyslexia. She has been to reading tutors and doctors but we cannot seem to figure out why she is struggling so much with reading. She is currently taking tests to determine if she has dyslexia. Since I am her overprotective sister, I want to know exactly what she is struggling with. I know that dyslexia causes letters to flip, for example, a ‘b’ will look like a ‘d.’ I also know it causes other problems when trying to read, but what are those problems. I want to know what her …show more content…
This website gave me the same basic knowledge of dyslexia, some facts about dyslexia, and information on phonological processing; it also gave me a video explaining dyslexia. Dyslexia is in no way a determining factor of intelligence. Dyslexia varies in each person that has it, but all of them will read at a lower level than usual for their age. Of students with a learning disability, eighty percent have dyslexia making it the most common learning disability. Dyslexia is more common in boys than it is in girls. The ability to understand spoken words is something the brain develops at a very early age, it is called language acquisition device. When a word is said, people hear it as a complete word. They do not break it into it phenomes and then put it back together; however, this is necessary in reading and writing. This is called phonological processing which is what a dyslexic person has problems with …show more content…
I knew that it causes letters to flip but I did not know that the actual problem is breaking apart words into their phenomes, which is called phonological processing. I also assumed that the brain of a dyslexic person would function differently but I did not know how it functioned differently. I found out that the functional difference was those with dyslexia do not use the left hemisphere of the brain, which controls the language aspects. They use the front section, Broca’s area, instead. I also did not expect there to be structural differences. I was surprised to find out that there are structural differences, but I was even more surprised when I realized there are three structural differences. These structural differences include the ectopias and the symmetry in the cerebral cortex and the smaller nuclei in the thalamus. Although scientists do know these structural differences have an effect on the function of the brain for a dyslexic person, they do not know the