What is Dyslexia? Dyslexia is a learning disability that impairs a person's ability to read. It doesn't prevent their ability, but it makes it difficult. People with Dyslexia will often experience trouble processing and manipulation, reading aloud, and learning new words among many other struggles. Dyslexia is found in many children and although it can not be cured it can be worked on and improved.
More of the struggles people with Dyslexia face include struggling to learn rhymes, a speech delay, trouble following directions, difficulty with learning rules, struggle repeating short words, trouble telling left from right, struggle taking notes or copying words, trouble spelling words, a refusal to read aloud, difficulty telling time, and having
…show more content…
One way to help is an at school intervention program. My mom taught at an elementary school in Wyoming and would often work with the kids in the school’s intervention program. She would visit classrooms and help kids who were struggling with any subject from math to reading and writing. Other days, she would take some of the students from one class and help them take tests by reading the questions and answer options for them and help them focus on tasks. Other forms of intervention include special education classrooms with programs to address the needs of all students and create a learning plan that will best help them. Ways parents can help is by, “Address the problem early…Read aloud with your child… Work with your child's school… Encourage reading time… Set an example for reading.” (Mayo Clinic) Parents can help the children most when noticing at an early age and doing everything they can to improve their children’s disability. One of the best ways to do this is by helping them read. One of the best reading programs for children with dyslexia is the Orton Gillingham reading program. It teaches children, “...phonemic awareness through explicit, direct instruction. Overcoming dyslexia begins with the most basic reading elements, which are the phonemes.