DYSLEXIA; Here is why giving up is never an option

Research suggests that anywhere from 5-20% of the global population has dyslexia, but that as many as a third of entrepreneurs in the United States has it.

Dyslexia affects anywhere?from 5%-20% of people?in the world.

When we get older we tend to see things clearly and sometimes we even see things that are not even there. I knew and always thought that something was wrong with me because of the difficulties I had at an early age.?

And when you are in search of your life's meaning more gets clear to you. many of us are not aware of this disorder until one is fed up with being average.?

Dyslexia, also known as a reading disorder is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence. different people are affected to various degrees, problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, sounding out words in the head, pronouncing words when reading aloud, and understanding what one reads. often these difficulties are first noticed at school when someone who previously could read loses their ability. it is known as alexia. the difficulties are involuntary, and people with this disorder have a normal desire to learn. they have higher rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, developmental language disorders, and difficulties with numbers.

A researcher in the history of developmental dyslexia described this disorder as a clinical disability in 1881 by Oswald Berkhan but the term "Dyslexia" was formed by Rudolf Berlin 1883 an Ophthalmologist in Stuttgart. he used the term to refer to the case of a young boy who had a severe difficulty learning to read, and write.?

Despite showing typical intelligence, and physical abilities in all other respects, in 1896 W. Pringle Morgan a British physician from Seaford. east Sussex published a description of a reading-specific learning disorder in a report to the British Medical Journal "congenital word blindness"

The distinction between phonological versus surface types of dyslexia is only descriptive, and without any etiological assumption as to the underlying brain mechanisms.

DIAGNOSIS

Dyslexia is heterogeneous, and a neurodevelopmental disorder, a dimensional learning disorder that impairs accurate, and fluent word reading, and spelling. typically, but not universal - features include difficulties with phonological awareness, inefficient, and often inaccurate processing of sounds in oral language (phonological processing), and verbal working memory deficits. Dyslexia is not a problem with intelligence. emotional problems often arise secondary to learning difficulties.?

HOW TO DETECT DYSLEXIA?

In early childhood, symptoms that correlate with a later diagnosis of dyslexia include delayed onset of speech and a lack of phonological awareness. a common myth closely associates dyslexia with mirror writing and reading letters or words backward. for me when I was back in school, and even now I could read my Home language books all I could see were italics symbols that couldn't register in my head.?

School-age children with dyslexia may exhibit signs of difficulty in identifying or generating rhyming words or counting the numbers of syllables in words - both of which depend on phonological awareness. they may also show difficulty in segmenting words into individual sounds or may blend sounds when producing words, indicating reduced phonemic awareness. difficulties with word retrieval or naming things is also associated with dyslexia, problems persist into adolescence and adulthood, and may include difficulties with summarizing stories, memorization reading aloud, or learning a foreign language, adults with dyslexia can often read with good comprehension, though they tend to read more slowly than others without learning difficulty and perform worse in spelling tests or when reading nonsense words(a measure of phonological awareness)

ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS

Dyslexia often co-occurs with other learning disorders, but the reasons for this comorbidity have not been identified. these associated disabilities include:

Dysgraphia (A disorder involving difficulties with writing or typing sometimes due to problems with eye-hand coordination)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (A disorder characterized by problems sustaining attention, hyperactivity, or acting impulsively)?

Auditory processing disorder (A listening disorder that affects the ability to process auditory information "Auditory memory and sequencing")

Developmental coordination disorder (A neurological condition characterized by difficulty in carrying out routine tasks involving balance, fine-motor control, kinaesthetic coordination, difficulty in the use of speech sounds, problems with short-term memory and organizing.)

WHAT CAUSES DYSLEXIA?

For many years researchers have been trying to find the neurobiological basis of dyslexia since the condition was first identified in 1881. instead, some researchers have tried to associate the common problem among people with dyslexia of not being able to see letters clearly to abnormal development of their visual nerve cells.?

Neuroanatomy: the correlation between both functional, and structural differences in the brains of children with reading difficulties. the cerebellar theory of dyslexia proposes that impairment of cerebellum-controlled muscle movement affects the formation of words by the tongue, and facial muscle, resulting in the fluency problems that some people with dyslexia experience.

Genetics: research into potential genetic causes of dyslexia has its roots in past - autopsy examinations of the brains of people with dyslexia.?

Gene-environment interaction: This exam the influence of environmental factors such as parental education, and teaching quality has determined that genetics have greater influence in supportive rather than less optional environments.

Language: The orthographic complexity of a language directly affects how difficult it is to learn to read it.?

HOW TO MANAGE DYSLEXIA?

Through the use of compensation strategies, therapy, and educational support. individuals with dyslexia can learn to read and write. there are techniques and technical aids that help to manage or conceal symptoms of this disorder. reducing stress, and anxiety can sometimes improve written comprehension, for dyslexia intervention with the alphabet - writing systems, the fundamental aim is to increase child's awareness of correspondences between graphemes(letters) and phonemes(sounds) and to relate those to reading and spelling by teaching, and spelling may yield longer-lasting gains than oral phonological training alone, early intervention can be successful in reducing reading failure. some evidence that the use of specially - tailored finds may help with dyslexia: Dyslexie, Open Dyslexia, and Lexie readable.?

Growing up with this severe disorder not only had it prevented me from reaching my greatest potential at an early age, and some of the greatest in the world, and it has become something that had created fear in mankind.

I grew with it, and I know how it feels to be alone in a world that is always changing rapidly. I'm proud to say; without not knowing, and with all my struggles to make meaning of everything has led me to many discoveries in the world, and it allowed me to master what man cannot master at an early age.?

I always looked at life as a random collection of small tragicomedies interspersed by general yawning and worrying about things we cannot change. Fortunately, we are not conscious of it, at least a bit less than cats are.

And our ambitions are just mad ravings of children of the abyss playing never-ending games of the End of Times, changeable but incapable of perfection, seesawing but not evolving.

All the human souls live in a permanent twilight of consciousness, often unsure about what we are or what we think we are.

If all world is a stage and life is just a play, then we are something that happens in the intervals of that play, and most of the time the only thing that is happening to us is confused noise, like voices in the night.

Although I have zero stylistic nobility, I tend to build a kind of metaphysics of any small physical discomfort.

Be all you can be for yourself, not for the world.?

Work on your strength, abilities, and leave out the rest to the world. Life is short, sad sometimes, and without knowing it reaches an end before we could even figure out our lives.?

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