Dyslexia

Can you imagine what it must be like to look at a book and all the words seem to
be jumbled and puzzled? Or you attempt to write a note but no one can make out what
you are writing. Those are the things that people with dyslexia have to face each day.
Dyslexia is not just a severe reading disorder characterized by reversals. And it is not due
to brain damage as traditionally thought for the past century. It is a syndrome of many and
varied symptoms affecting over 40 million American children and adults (Dyslexia
Online, 1).
Dyslexia is simply a term that means dysfunctional or impaired reading ability(
Fisher, 12). In and of itself that does not explain anything about what people with
dyslexia are truly dealing with, such as reversals, rotations, blockages or problems in
gestalt perception. The dyslexic child can not derive meaning from words unless they
hear the word. Seeing them does not set off the process of encoding and decoding that
ordinarily ...