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Stereotypes Of Dyslexia In Children

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To most people it's simple to read, you just take it word by word. Dyslexia makes it harder to read for children, they take it really slow when reading. Just with the simplest word like “now” they have trouble, they see it as “won” or “left” as “felt”. Children may have trouble recognizing it but they don't have to do it alone, there are people who can help them so they can get better at reading and writing. Dyslexia is sometimes caused by genes and heredity. Dyslexia mostly runs in families. Forty percent of children with dyslexia have siblings who are also diagnosed with dyslexia. As many as forty-nine percent of children with dyslexia have parents with dyslexia. Scientists have found a number of genes that are linked with reading and processing …show more content…

Some of the emotional factors are frustration, depression, and their own image. Children can get frustrated at school and they will get angry. It is common for children with dyslexic to take their frustration out on to their parents. Some children let the anger build and sit during school to the point of being extremely passive. However, when the child gets home to where they feel safe, these feelings of frustration and anger erupt and are directed toward the parents. When it comes to depression most dyslexics are not depressed, children with this learning disability are at high risk of getting intense feelings of sorrow and pain, most likely because of their low self–esteem. First, they start to gain negative thoughts about themselves. Second, they start to think negatively and think negatively about the world. Then, they don't think positively about the future. When the child learns they don't do good as other children do in school they see it as if they failed and they will end up frustrated. They will think that they are inferior to others and that whatever they do it won't matter because it won't make a difference. Instead of feeling tence or letters in a word when writing or reading. Not knowing they're left from their right, how to tell time, or how to follow given directions. Another symptom is pronouncing written words when reading, especially words that are really similar such as pint and mint. Some powerful and successful, they start to learn that their environment controls them instead of the other way around, they then start to feel powerless and

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