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PRESENTED BY DYSLXIA

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling.<br>

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PRESENTED BY DYSLXIA

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  1. PRESENTED BY: SHIVANI DUINDI

  2. INTRODUCTION • Dyslexia and IQ are not interrelated • Commonly have difficulty in verbal skills, abstract reasoning, hand-eye coordination, concentration, perception, memory and social adjustment. • Generally its undetected in early age.

  3. DEFINITION • Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. • Dyslexia occurs across the range of intellectual abilities. • You might mix up the letters in a word – for example reading the word “now” as “won” or “left” as “felt”.

  4. CAUSES • The real cause are still unknown. • Some probable causes: -Hereditary -Neurological -Cross wiring -Hearing problems at an early age -Brain injury

  5. SYMPTOMS • Difficulties with spelling. • Confusion over left and right. • Difficulties with numbers. • Burdensome with maths.

  6. CHARACTERISTICS • These characteristics and vary from day-to-day or minute-to-minute. 1. General 2. Academic 3. Intellectual 4. Health 5. Motor skills or writing 6. Reading and spelling

  7. TYPES • Dyslexia is basically classified as three types. 1. Trauma dyslexia:- Rarest type of the learning disability. - Caused by a brain injury. 2. Deep dyslexia:- It is also known as primary dyslexia - Hereditary 3. Developmental dyslexia:- It is not so much a type of dyslexia, it is dyslexia. - It is characterized by extreme difficulty in reading caused by a hereditary, phonologic disability.

  8. PROBLEMS Common characteristics include problems with: • Spelling • Handwriting • Difficulty in mathematics • Dancing letters in word • Delayed spoken language • Slow reading • Fatigue after reading only for a short while

  9. DIAGNOSIS • Dyslexia is a difficult disorder to diagnosis exactly. • Several general diagnosis method includes: - A classroom observation. - A development, method, behavioral, academic and family history - Information on cognitive processing. - Tests of specific language skills. - Educational tests to determine level of functioning in basic skills.

  10. TREATMENT • An evaluation must be done to determine the child’s specific area of disability. • Treatment of dyslexia ideally involves planning between the parents and the teachers. • May be implemented a Special Educator in the regular classroom. • Most important aspect of any treatment plan is attitude.

  11. ROLE OF PARENTS/SUPERVISORS • Encourage • Provide additional time • Avoid more instructions • Use bullet points, more space, colour, flow chart, white boards. • Use full stop(.) before starting of sentences. • Use pencil while reading. • Summarize the main points. • Play sound Hopscotch.

  12. FAMOUS PERSONALITIES WITH DYSLEXIA Leonardo da Vinci Thomas Alva Edison Abhishek Bachchan Walt Disney

  13. PREVALENCE • 5-10% of the world population suffers from dyslexia. • 1 of every 10 children is dyslexia (2006). • The male to female ratio of dyslexia was 3:4:1

  14. CONCLUSION

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