Dyslexia, the reading disorder seen by the AEP
Children may encounter numerous problems during their learning. One of them is the dyslexia, which makes reading a real hell since the words or letters are disordered in their minds and cause them not to understand correctly the message offered by the text. These disorders can also affect writing in the same way: messing up words and making sentences meaningless. However, dyslexia can be corrected with much effort.
What is dyslexia?
The Spanish Association of Pediatrics, AEP, defines dyslexia as a disorder in reading or writing that occurs repeatedly and without solution over time. For its part, Family and Health, points out that the reading comprehension of these children is bad and that it is the specific learning disorder most common among students. The AEP states that it can be diagnosed in at least 5% of the school population, which means that in a class of 25 students, at least one of them would have dyslexia.
That a scholar has difficulties in reading or that performs this exercise slowly does not have to worry parents as it is quite common at early ages when children begin to relate to books.
Symptoms of dyslexia
However, before the appearance of other signs, parents should worry about whether they are facing a case of dyslexia, symptoms such as:
1. When you write inverts letters or numbers (makes the turns backwards), and continues doing it a year after having learned them.
2. Change the order of the letters, especially with some syllables (with the letters "l" or "r"), for example: instead of writing "exclamar" it says "excalmar"
3. Skip some letter of the word, for example, instead of "tree", write "arbo".
4. When writing sentences, join some words. For example: "the blue ball is from Javier".
5. At the time of reading repeat some of these errors of addition, omission, investment.
Familia y Salud adds that hesitation, rectification and line breaks at the time of reading is another symptom of dyslexia. The AEP also points to a family history It also encourages children to develop these disorders because those who have a dyslexic parent have approximately a 60% chance of being dyslexic as well.
How can dyslexia be treated?
Although dyslexia has its origin in brain dysfunction, reeducation helps to alleviate many of the mistakes made in both reading and writing. The best in these cases is to go to a specialist to help the children in this treatment: speech therapists, psychologists and pedagogues will be good allies for children to deal with dyslexia. There are cases in which this disorder is associated with other problems such as attention deficit, so in these cases a clinical assessment will be necessary to resolve this issue.
You can also help the little ones from home. The main thing in these cases is to raise their self-esteem because they can feel less than the rest, so praising their progress and achievements is a good idea. It is not advisable to put pressure on children in these cases as we can generate anxiety in them, which will result in slower progress.
Games recommended by the AEP for dyslexia
It may be good to look for interactive video games to help them reeducate their reading and help them improve while having fun. It is also important to help them with their homework since they will feel rejected by these exercises that will remind them that they have this disorder. Another way to reeducate at home are games where children have to practice some sound and order the letters well. The AEP recommends to parents the following games for children with dyslexia:
- The game "from Havana has come a boat loaded with" * words that begin with "r" *
- "I see I see what do you see?" an object that has two letters "a".
- Make together word searches.
- Riddles of words. For example: p_ _ _ _a (ball).
- Give palms for each spoken word.
- Give palms for each syllable of a word.
Damián Montero
