Dyslexia today in our world is by far one of the most common disorders in children causing the child problems in being attentive in class and not being able to absorb information mentally, thus leading the child to have difficulty in acquiring linguistic skills such as reading, writing or spelling certain words. (Waites 1968).How does dyslexia make a child’s life difficult and challenging? In many of the cases nowadays it is found that dyslexia is a major issue that affects a child’s education because of how it causes problems in understanding, coping or studying a particular subject or any other basic thing a child needs to know in their life. In this essay we will be examining about the different types, statistics, problems caused and also how a child can be helped to recover or manage dyslexia, as this issue is becoming very common in children these days.
It is important to know the different types of Dyslexia too, many people do not realize the fact that dyslexia can affect adults too, the reason of which will be enumerated in the following lines. There are three main types. "Primary Dyslexia" is a genetic form. It is the most common form of Dyslexia. Dyslexics in this group
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Teachers and parents at most conclude that he is either psychotic or a pathological liar. One of the many interesting things about dyslexia is it’s exaggeration of a person’s strengths and weaknesses; furthermore these strengths and weaknesses are closely related. Dr. Michael Ryan of ‘idonline.org’ speaks of his experience with a talented dyslexic. “I once worked with a young adult who received a perfect score on the Graduate Record Exam in mathematics. He could do anything with numbers except remember them. The graduate students he tutored in advanced statistics or calculus had great difficulty believing that he could not remember their telephone