Practical parenting for dyslexic, ADD and ADHD children
She realized that she had much more difficulty learning how to read and write than most other children of her age. Franz is one of several persons in her family to struggle from dyslexia, a reading and writing disorder.
“He is Sam Ludeman from Shepparton, and he is also dyslexic. Sam tells us dyslexia has almost been as hard to bear as his handsomeness”
Scientific understanding and medical treatments for dyslexia have advanced over the past 5 years, but much work remains to be done to fully understand the causes of dyslexia and to improve the lives of children who struggle to learn to read, according to a Seminar published Online First in The Lancet. Indeed, most children are only diagnosed with dyslexia after they have experienced serious difficulties in school, at a time when it is much harder for them to master new skills, and this could be preventing children with dyslexia from achieving the best outcomes.
Researchers found children who had trouble with visual attention, meaning they struggled when trying to pick out certain symbols amid distractions, were the ones who later had trouble reading.
They say simple visual attention tasks can fix this problem and this research may change the way they treat children with dyslexia.
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