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Dyslexia

• Presented By
• Shah Zaib Amjad

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What is Dyslexia?

• Combination of two words dys and lexis
• Dys means (poor) and lexis means (language)
• Commonly have difficullty in verbal skills
• Generally undetected in early ages
• According to U.S National Institute of Health
• Dyslexia is learning disability

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Causes

• The real causes are still unknown.
• Some probably causes
• Heredity
• Neurological
• Cross Wiring
• Hearing problems at early age Brain Injury

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Heredity

• Frequently found in families
• Different chromosome are involved inheritability
  of Dyslexia
• Neurological
• Bunches of cells detected
• Ectopic cells in normal
• Children move to brain when it was developing
• Mango cellular system

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Cross Wiring

• Unusual variation in brain
• EEG (electroencephalogram)
• Hearing Problem
• Colds and throat infections
• Sometime known as glue ear
• Unable to hear difference
• Delay child phonemic awareness

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Brain Injury

• Accident during postnatal period
• Injuries that effect the left hemisphere of brain
• Breech birth,oxygen deprivation of new born
• Symptoms
• Difficulties with spelling
• Writing letters or numbers backward
• Confusion over left and right

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Types

• Dyslexia is basically divided in three types
• Trauma dyslexia
• Deep dyslexia
• Developmental dyslexia
• Trauma Dyslexia
• Acquired Dyslexia
• Rarest type of this learning disability
• Caused by brain injury

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Deep Dyslexia

• Also known as primary dyslexia
• Heredity
• Chromosome effect left hemisphere
• Child compensate with right brain
• Hence include left-handedness

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Developmental Dyslexia

• Secondary dyslexia
• Developmental stages of fetus
• Positive side decreases as child grows older
• Problems
• Spelling
• Handwriting
• Confusion with direction
• Confusing with opposites
• Transposing letters in words and slow reading

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Diagnosis

• Dyslexia is difficult order to diagnose exactly
• Several diagnosis method include
• Classroom observation
• Test of specific language skill
• Information on cognitive processing
• Ask about history of family,education etc

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Treatment

• Treatment of dyslexia involves planning
• between parents and teachers
• Most important aspect of treatment is attitude
• Evaluation must be based on
• childs specific area of disability
• There are different therapies for treatment

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