Do All Children With Dyslexia Face The Same Difficulties?

Myth: All children with dyslexia are the same.

Reality: No two children with dyslexia will have the same difficulties. Cans and bottles are mass produced in factories not children.

The severity of a child’s dyslexia can vary from mild to moderate or severe. Dyslexia can manifest itself in different ways. Each child with dyslexia exhibits a unique pattern of difficulties in reading, writing, spelling and math. 

Some children are slow readers and their writing is incomprehensible. Other children may have difficulties in sounding out words and spelling them even if they have an excellent vocabulary.  

Some children may exhibit more problems with their organisational and orientation skills. Still others may have problems in memorising and recalling fundamental facts needing additional time to answer questions. There could also be children that exhibit all of these difficulties simultaneously.

Recent research has shown that there are several distinct categories of dyslexia.

In the interest of children it is best to only focus on one two key questions – 

How soon can the child be identified using objective parameters?

What are the most effective remedial strategies that will work with each child?’

Further Reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia

http://dyslexia.yale.edu/Stu_whatisdyslexia.html

http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/what-is-dyslexia