In the recent years dyslexia has been coming to light about what causes dyslexia. Dyslexia is a genetic learning disability that effects more than reading, writing, and speaking, although there is biological changes that happen in the left hemisphere of the brain shows if a person has dyslexia besides symptoms of delayed literacy and language development. In recent discussions of dyslexia the support from schools and parents make this challenging for the student to learn, a controversial issue has been whether people need to be informed of how common dyslexia is in the world. On the one hand, some argue that dyslexia is a learning disability where the student struggle in school setting. From this perspective, over time people with dyslexia
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We know students are being affected and have struggles with their homework and in class work. “From the International Dyslexia Association suggest 15 to 20% of the whole world has some form of dyslexia” (Heikkila, E. and Knight, A., 2012), most are students in grade school that are getting support also early adults have support going into college. The others that get hit with struggles are the parents, researchers believe that dyslexia is a genetic disorder that is past down but is not predictable on how it’s past down to younger family members (Eklund, K., Nergard-Nilssen, T., and Unhjem, A., 2015). Sometimes it is hard to see who has dyslexia in the family, because in the last hundred years it has been getting researched and most schools do not use the term dyslexia until twenty years or so ago. Yet no matter who has dyslexia in the family, the support and struggle is an aligned battle to help learn in every setting of life. For most people with dyslexia the early childhood is the most challenging to learn because short term memory is not strong on top of having logographic and alphabetic processes wired differently having a delayed in process time to understand what is going on. Trainin and Swanson (2005) studied dyslexia in early childhood and have seen that children with early intervention and support/understanding from parents and teachers, have a larger increase in scores, outcomes, and coping from school settings. I remember taking the test to “qualifies for an Individualized Education Program (IEP)” (Lapkin, 2014, p. 10) to use the special needs or special education and I struggled more before I got help with homework and test taking in the special education room. The support that I got decreased my stress and my grades went up in all my
We know students are being affected and have struggles with their homework and in class work. “From the International Dyslexia Association suggest 15 to 20% of the whole world has some form of dyslexia” (Heikkila, E. and Knight, A., 2012), most are students in grade school that are getting support also early adults have support going into college. The others that get hit with struggles are the parents, researchers believe that dyslexia is a genetic disorder that is past down but is not predictable on how it’s past down to younger family members (Eklund, K., Nergard-Nilssen, T., and Unhjem, A., 2015). Sometimes it is hard to see who has dyslexia in the family, because in the last hundred years it has been getting researched and most schools do not use the term dyslexia until twenty years or so ago. Yet no matter who has dyslexia in the family, the support and struggle is an aligned battle to help learn in every setting of life. For most people with dyslexia the early childhood is the most challenging to learn because short term memory is not strong on top of having logographic and alphabetic processes wired differently having a delayed in process time to understand what is going on. Trainin and Swanson (2005) studied dyslexia in early childhood and have seen that children with early intervention and support/understanding from parents and teachers, have a larger increase in scores, outcomes, and coping from school settings. I remember taking the test to “qualifies for an Individualized Education Program (IEP)” (Lapkin, 2014, p. 10) to use the special needs or special education and I struggled more before I got help with homework and test taking in the special education room. The support that I got decreased my stress and my grades went up in all my