Dyslexia is a case often seen on children, but adults can also be dealing with dyslexia too. Most often, the symptoms include difficulty in learning which specifically includes writing, reading, spelling and dealing with numbers.
In very young children however, it is quite difficult to determine if you are dealing with dyslexia because children's learning process varies widely from one another. Of course, you can also attribute some of the learning difficulties to the late development of children.
Although most of the signs of dyslexia is related to reading and writing, you can however find some children with this disorder intelligent in other areas. Dyslexia can indeed occur in people and children in different intelligence level. Indeed, this disorder is not an intellectual disability. It is important to note that diagnosing dyslexia can also be difficult because its signs may also be similar to other disorders like the common ADHD. Some may get a dyslexia test to determine the problem.
If your child has been diagnosed with this learning disability, you can actually do something to help your child cope up with this problem. Here are some things you can do in dealing with dyslexia and help bring back your child's self-esteem.
- Assess your child's strengths and weaknesses. This is one of the first things you can do to help. By knowing where he is good at and where he is having difficulty, you will be able to know how to help him in areas that he needs more help and use his strengths to help him learn.
- Have constant communication with your child's teacher. In dealing with dyslexia and being able to overcome it, you can start by talking to your child's teacher and finding out what difficulties he often encounter at school, specifically in the learning process. It may help a lot if you also have skilled specialist teaching when it comes to reading.
- Find ways and techniques to raise your child's self-esteem. Most often, children with dyslexia often have low self-esteem as a result of their difficulty in the learning process, which is often emphasized especially with children. To help them in this area, you can encourage them by giving rewards and praises every time they achieve something in school. You may also help them engage in other activities or interests in school where they can excel and do good. You may let them do painting or crafting, or you may let them participate in sports or music, where they can excel. This way, they will also build confidence.
- At home, you can also help your child by giving more attention to him in doing his homework, and encourage him in the things that he can do well. It will also help to make him understand that the difficulty is not his fault, but of course, you have to encourage him to learn and succeed in the areas where he finds difficult.
- Help your child be organized by using colors. Dyslexic individuals are often disorganized and you can do something about it by training them. By training them to be organized, you can also help them to focus.
Dealing with dyslexia indeed requires time and patience and although this problem may not disappear at an instant, you can make it easier for your child to deal with it if you also give time and effort to help him deal with it from the start.
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