Dyslexia

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Dyslexia
Dyslexia

• Human Disease Project
• Mr. Schneider Period 7
• Erin Saliba

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Dyslexia and Its History

• Dyslexia is a learning disability that takes
  place when organizational differences occur in
  the brain. Dyslexia is present at birth and
  makes it difficult to read, speak, or write.
  Also it results in difficulty trying to learn,
  remember, or express information.

• Dr. Samuel Whorton is credited as an early
  pioneer in Dyslexia. He called dyslexia
  Stresphosymbolia, which means twisted symbols.
  Also in Europe, doctors were studying Word
  Blindness. All of this occurred in the 1900s.

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Symptoms Of Dyslexia

• Have a hard time noticing sounds in words, sound
  order, rhymes, or syllable sequences.
• Difficulty with word Identification.
• Difficulty Spelling.
• Difficulty with number and letter sequences,
  either read or written (Ex. 12-21)
• Bad reading comprehension
• Difficulty expressing thoughts in written form.
• Delayed Speech
• Incomplete interpretation of speech heard.
• Difficulty expressing thoughts out loud.
• Difficulty with directions (right and left, up
  and down, early and late, yesterday and tomorrow,
  months and days.)
• Confusion about right and left handedness.
• Similar difficulties among relatives.
• Difficulty with handwriting.
• Difficulty in mathematics-sequencing of numbers
  and directional steps, or the language of math.
• Difficulty staying organized.

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Home Dyslexia Test

• Do you have any family members who experienced
  difficulty learning to read or spell when they
  were at school?
• Has your child suffered from repeated ear
  infections?
• Is your child experiencing feelings of failure at
  school?
• Does your child have difficulty with spelling?
• Does your child confuse left and right?
• Is anyone in your family left handed?
• Does your child have trouble reading allowed?
• Does your child get confused while following
  directions, for example when playing a game?
• Does your child have difficulty remembering the
  multiplication tables?

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Dyslexias Affect

• Dyslexias Affect on The Body
• Dyslexia is neurologically based and runs in
  families. Although it does not affect the body
  like cancer or muscular dystrophy do, it affects
  every day life

• Dyslexias Affect on Everyday Life
• Dyslexia makes it difficult to read, write and
  perform math. Dyslexics must learn methods of
  coping with dyslexia. Also the must choose
  professions in which dyslexia does not interfere
  like art, sports, architecture, engineering, etc.

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Treatments for Dyslexia

• Dyslexia is present at birth but is usually not
  evident until the child begins learning to read.
  People usually get dyslexia through heredity.
  There is no cure for dyslexia but it can be
  treated. Dyslexics can get special education.
  Special educations teach dyslexics techniques of
  learning with dyslexia and coping with it. A
  special education for dyslexia can cost up to
  23,000 a year for a private school. Many
  dyslexics are home schooled.

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Interview With Cindy Beil

• Is there research being done to find a cure or a
  better treatment for dyslexia? Constantly, Not
  for a cure but there is always research being
  conducted to find the best methods of treatment.
• How much would a special education cost? The
  cost depends on the school specifically. Some
  dyslexics are home schooled so there is no cost.
• When was dyslexia discovered, and by whom? Dr.
  Samuel Whorton is credited as an early pioneer in
  dyslexia. He called is Strephosymbolia which
  means twisted symbols. Also in Europe, doctors
  were studying Word Blindness. This was all
  happening in the 1900s.
• What are some tests a health care provider would
  run to help diagnose dyslexia? Normally a
  psychologist tests for dyslexia. There is no set
  test psychologists use to diagnose dyslexics.
  They use whatever test they like best.

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• Look at the slide on the overhead. It shows
  what text can look like to people with dyslexia.
  This is what the text really says.
• On a fine, sunny day in the small town of
  Woodage, you see the people gather in the town
  square. There is not a notice to meet, nor an
  event to gather for. Rather the people come out
  to visit with each other on fine, sunny days in
  the small town of Woodage.
• Whereas every other day, the people are
  accountants, bakers, engineers, clerks and
  regular working folk. On fine, sunny days in the
  small town of Woodage, the people are different
  when they gather in the town square. They are
  fiddlers, acrobats, clowns, jesters, peddlers,
  zoo keepers, dancers and cavorters. They play,
  they laugh, they sing on fine, sunny days in the
  small town of Woodage. And when the sun goes
  down, the people go home to prepare for the next
  day when they are once again regular working
  folk.
• And that is what happens on fine, sunny days in
  the small town of Woodage.

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• Look at the next slide on overhead. These are
  pictures of the brain sliced in half. The face
  is at the top of the page. These pictures were
  taken as people were following a pattern of dots
  on a screen. The red areas show what areas of
  the brain were active while they followed the
  pattern. The bottom brains, are brains of
  dyslexics. The areas of their brains failed to
  operate as much as those who were not dyslexic.
  This may be part of the reason is it so hard for
  dyslexics to follow directions, learn to read and
  write, and express thought.

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• Look at the last slide. This slide shows that
  about one out of every ten people is dyslexic.
  (This is an estimation)

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These famous people have Dyslexia or some
symptoms of Dyslexia
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Bibliography

• What is Dyslexia? http//www.dyslexia-inst.org.uk/
  12-12-01
• Dyslexia and Language Brain Areas.
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  12-12-01
• What is Dyslexia? http//www.Idanatl.org/
  12-24-01
• Dyslexia www.dyslexia.com 1-5-02
• Dyslexia Magazine http//dyslexia-magazine.com
  1-5-02
• Dyslexia Center http//www.dyslexiacenter.com/dysl
  exia-add.org 1-2-02
• Dyslexia www.Idonline.org/images/dyslexia.gif
  1-16-02
• Pattern Motion www.nimb.nih.gov/events/images/dysl
  exia/gif 1-16-02
• American Heritage Dictionary, Second College
  Edition. Dell Publishing Co., Inc, New York 1983

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Dyslexia

• By Erin Saliba