“Word Blindness”Dyslexia; A Difficulty With Words

“Word Blindness”
Dyslexia; A Difficulty With Words
























By: Shelly Ives
April 17, 2002
ENG 102
Dyslexia

A fifteen-year-old boy researches dyslexia and then develops a screening test for dyslexia to be used on kindergarteners when entering school.
What is it about dyslexia that a screening of kindergarteners is important? It is extremely important in that although they cannot read many five-year olds do recognize some alphabet letters and their sounds. The relationship between letters and letter sounds, or phonemes is the basic building block of all language including reading, writing and spelling. Dyslexic children often are either without these skills, or are slower with their concept of them and have problems with processing the information about phonemes. Her is the scary part, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dyslexia affects at least one in five children in the United States, and is the most...