...Current Trends in Nutrition The Role of Omega-3 Nutritional Supplements in Treating Childhood Dyslexia Dyslexia is a literacy disorder whose exact cause remains unknown. It does not affect IQ or other cognitive function, but can profoundly impair reading ability. It is believed that heredity plays a role, and several studies have sought to determine whether degree of deficiency of fatty acids in the diet could also be a contributing factor ( Richardson AJ, 2000). Dyslexia has been linked to clinical signs of fatty acid deficiency in adults, so the question of treating developmental dyslexia in children with fatty acid supplements has been raised as a possible safe and effective treatment (Taylor KE, 2000). There is a growing trend among holistic practitioners and drug manufacturers alike, to develop and market supplements to treat dyslexia, and as the disorder has such far-reaching consequences in academic success, self-esteem, and social interaction for those who suffer from it, the market is quite receptive to new treatment approaches. (Evans R 1999) Given that development of nutritional dyslexia treatment is a relatively new endeavor in the scientific community, review of current and recent research on the matter is appropriate. Evaluating proposed treatments and commercially-prepared nutritional supplements will be more effective with a background understanding of the issue. Research studies have reported that dyslexic children are deficient in body stores of...
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...school-aged children (DSM-IV, 1994). 40% to 70% of those participating in prison programs ("Dyslexia and the adult learner," 1994). 60% and more of those in adult literacy programs ("Dyslexia and the adult learner," 1994). 40% to 60% of those in basic adult education programs 3% to 6% of school-aged children (Council on Scientific Affairs, 1989) 4% of school-aged children (DSM-IV, 1994). 40% to 70% of those participating in prison programs ("Dyslexia and the adult learner," 1994). 60% and more of those in adult literacy programs ("Dyslexia and the adult learner," 1994). 40% to 60% of those in basic adult education programs Mark Waluk Eckert AP Psych/Per 1 6 November 2012 Mark Waluk Eckert AP Psych/Per 1 6 November 2012 DYSLEXIA DYSLEXIA Effect On Society Effect On Society Diagnosis Before diagnosing Dyslexia, the health care provider will: Perform a complete medical exam, including a neurological exam Ask questions about the person's developmental, social, and school performance Ask if anyone else in the family has had dyslexia Psychoeducational testing and psychological assessment may be done. AGE AT ONSET: Usually apparent by age 7 (2nd grade), sometimes age 6 (1st grade) DSM-III, 1987). Sometimes up to age 9 if a Developmental Reading Disorder is compensated for in school (DS-III-R, 1987). Diagnosis Before diagnosing Dyslexia, the health care provider will: Perform a complete medical exam, including a neurological...
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...identified over the years. They can affect many different facets of a person's life, such as concentration, focus, reading, math, or writing. Many people that are diagnosed with a learning disability have more than one. LD has always been difficult to define as a disorder, but is typically seen as “unexpected” underachievement (Swanson, Harris, and Graham 2003). There are many tools and techniques that have been developed to help these people cope with their disability. Many disabilities are diagnosed early in life when a child is noticed to have difficulty communicating effectively, speaking, reading, writing, solving a math problem, or any other task that should be performed at their appropriate age level. There are many different types of learning disabilities that have been identified. Some of the more common ones are dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia. Although they are not classified as learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism also present learning difficulties. Dyslexia is the most common, and most well known, learning disability. According to Montgomery (2007), “The term “dyslexia” is used as a shortened version of “specific developmental dyslexia” for individuals who have an unexpected difficulty in learning symbol codes at a level in accord with their intellectual ability (p.65). This means that dyslexia is a disorder that makes it difficult to read, write, spell, and sometimes speak. Usually the term learning disability is usually...
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...Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is described by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence. Different people are influenced to shifting degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading rapidly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the head, pronouncing words when reading aloud and understanding what one reads. Frequently these challenges are first seen 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. Dyslexia is believed to be caused by both genetic and natural variables. A couple cases keep run in families. It frequently occurs in individuals with attention deficit...
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...“Dyslexia” Dyslexia is a disorder characterized by difficulty reading. Is a disorder that can NOT be cured, But it can be prevented and helped by a treatment. I am writing about dyslexia to know how dyslexia occurs, how it can be prevented, and why does it occur. Dyslexia, was first dicovered by a German ophthalmologist, Rudolf Berlin, when he examined a patient who had difficulty in learning to read and write, but showed normal intelligence and physical ability. Others described this same phenomenon around this time period, in the 1880s and 1890s, without using the “dyslexia” description. A British ophthalmologist, James Hinshelwood published a series of medical papers on the subject. In 1925, neurologist Samuel T. Orton had a...
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...This paper explains how and why dyslexia affects our children; it will also explain how it affects students and how we can help them. Those who are unfamiliar with the disability will receive an introduction to dyslexia’s characteristics as well as a description of proven methods which have been most effective in helping dyslexic students achieve success. The goal of this analysis is to provide an overview of why a percentage of our children is having difficulties and determine what is interfering with their ability to learn to read and write. During my observance of these students, I noted that these children have dyslexia. I can now understand why so many frustrated parents of children with learning disabilities (LD) with dyslexia lobbied for the establishment of special classes in schools for children with dyslexia. [P]arents pushed for LD programs in schools for two main reasons: many did not see their failing children as mentally retarded and therefore refused to accept placement for them in classes for the mentally retarded, and schools did not provide services for children with severe reading or language difficulties unless they qualified for an existing special education category. …by the late 1950s, medical and psychological research, combined with parental pressure, led to the development of special school programs to meet the needs of a population of children that always had existed but only recently had been recognized. The ideological message in this interpretation...
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...Cher, and Greg Louganis and countless other famous people had in common was they all shared a learning disability, called Dyslexia. Dyslexia is a type of learning disability that often affects a person's language and mathematical abilities, but this is only one side of the dyslexic story. Each individual with dyslexia may have different experiences and symptoms because of variation in lived experiences and neurological differences. The main symptoms often addressed in diagnosing dyslexia are students that have major difficulties with word recognition, reading, spelling, Etc. In addition to difficulties in learning cognition, over half of people diagnosed with dyslexia have a form of anxiety or depressive disorder....
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...emphasised more on the Clinical Study of the Child by Psychologists Integration Phase Integration Phase was characterized by the rapid growth of school programme for learning disabled children Contemporary Phase The current phase is an eclectic approach with a shift to the Educators. It is a coming together of the doctors , psychologists, parents and teacher with ultimate responsibility lying on the teachers The term Learning Disability actually was coined in 1963 here in Chicago by Dr. Samuel Kirk. Earlier to this varying confusing labels were used for children who were relatively normal or superior in intelligence but had learning problem. This term was very useful for a number of reasons: • It focused attention on the language, reading, and processing of information, and caused people to think about learning disabilities in new ways. • It implied that...
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...Learning Disability | Dyslexia | | Rekeil Peterson | 11/9/2014 | Mrs. P Ponder | Learning Disability (Dyslexia) All too often children are labeled as slow or stupid; they are put aside into special classes for the slower kids and looked down upon by the smarter kids. Teachers and parents look at them in disappointment for the great potential they once saw in their child’s eyes has gone to waste. Many teens that now believe that their stupidity is a truth were once as young children, praised for their quick learning and brightness. There must be an explanation for this. The explanation for me along with many other kids is the learning disorder called dyslexia. “As a complex neurological condition, the symptoms may effect many areas of learning and function and may be described as a difficulty in reading, spelling and written language” (Reid 2), as defined by The British Dyslexia Association in 1997. This is a common definition of dyslexia. The other definition of dyslexia is “ an inherited neurological difference, resulting in language, perception, processing, and attention concentration deference’s” (Dyslexia Research Institute 1). Dyslexia is a serious disorder that effects an “estimated 5 percent to 15 percent of children” (UniSci 1). This number is extremely high; yet many do not know the effects that dyslexia has on the learning process and the emotional development of children, or understands what dyslexia even is. It has been found through...
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...DYSLEXIA Published online 17 December 2008 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/dys.379 & INNOVATIONS AND INSIGHTS E ditorial note. There has been a lot of clinical speculation about the ‘survival value’ of dyslexia. If one takes an evolutionary perspective, the cognitive skills associated with being dyslexic must have some value—something Scott (2004) and this article speculate on. In addition, the comments that dyslexics tend to do rather better at three-dimensional spatial skills and ‘Gestalt’ overviews of situations are touched on. The idea of dyslexia not being a disorder is one that I personally like. I often look upon dyslexia as an individual difference in learning styles—one might describe me as being, for example, ‘dysgolfic’, but luckily, playing golf does not impinge on my every day life! As always with Innovations and Insight, the objective is to put an idea out there and invite people to comment and also undertake some research in the area. Scott N.R. (2004) Dyslexia and Counselling, Whurr/Wiley. Copyright r 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DYSLEXIA 15: 363–366 (2009) 364 Innovations and Insights Dyslexia, Not Disorder K. Ehardt Washington When examining dyslexia, one must address the paradox of how a disorder that is both heritable and disadvantageous can be so common (Keller & Miller, 2006). There is a range of estimates on the occurrence of dyslexia, with the higher end reaching 8% of the population...
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...Dyslexia has become more and more common for kids in the past few years. Dyslexia is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols. For example kids can mess up the B’s and there D’s. As the years go by people are starting to learn and try to figure out ways that we can help kids out not to have dyslexia. It is very hard for kids to learn and go through school with this learning disability. The sooner dyslexia is treated on a child the likelier he or she will have a favorable outcome in the future. But it is never too late for people with dyslexia to learn to improve their language skills to make them stronger. There are many complex issues to consider in developing...
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...about DYSLEXIA. Okay guys, now look at this words. (LAUGH) And how you spell it? This is how normal people see and spell this word, however to a person that is dyslexic, is might appear to them like this (switch a & u to form luagh), or even like this (write luahg). To better understanding about dyslexia, lets watch this video. ((Video. . . ..)) Dyslexia is actually a learning disability. It is a disability you are born with. This causes trouble with reading, writing, spelling and sometimes even speaking. People with dyslexia are normal just like you and me. Can you recognize them? They are famous people that born with dyslexia. This prove that people with dyslexia can lead a normal life or even be better than normal people. So they should not be considered as lacking intelligence or lazy. They simply have a neurological disorder that disables and slows the brains ability to process information correctly. According to an October 2011 article in The Age newspaper by journalist, Elisabeth Tarica, every 2 in 3 school children have dyslexia. As it is pretty likely that you will encounter a co-worker, friend, or even have a child with dyslexia someday, I have done a great deal of research on this topic and I would like to share with all of you more about Dyslexia. So today I want to take a few minutes to share with you symptoms of dyslexia, causes of dyslexia, as well as some tips on how to help people with the disorder. The first point is the symptom of dyslexia. It is...
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...word. Typoglycemia is closely related to dyslexia, as there are many similarities, but there are also some differences that help separate them so they can be easily identified. Typoglycemia and dyslexia are not completely different because there are still some similarities. Some of the similarities between dyslexic and typoglycemic texts are that they both contain scrambled and rearranged words but the first and last letters always stay the same. While they are both readable...
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...things. I could not just focus on my dyslexia and how it has made writing and reading terribly hard for me. If I only focused on my attention deficit disorder and how it makes it almost impossible for me to focus on something for more than thirty seconds. If I focused on just one of those major parts of my life then whoever reads this could not understand me and what makes me the person I am. Before freshman year I had never given a thought to wrestling. The first practice I went to I thought,...
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...Reading in the Dark Several students struggle with a learning disability known as dyslexia. People have a hard time understanding exactly what these students go through. Having dyslexia myself, the best way to explain it is that being dyslexic is like being blind. Dyslexia is a learning disorder associated with the impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or integrate auditory or visual information. This clearly creates a combative relationship with education. Students with this disorder must take different measures to function in a setting that demands the skills they struggle with. Dyslexia is normally noticed in elementary school when the student’s grades decline despite sufficient study efforts. My life since I was diagnosed with dyslexia has been hard, but i have learned ways to deal with it better. The inability to see; lacking of the sense of light, or the inability to perceive or understand...
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