Dyslexic Children

Dyslexia is a commonly known disability for children. Dyslexia is a disability that affects the reading, writing, spelling, and as well as sometimes speaking (Lapkin 1). Children, adults, and whomever else who has this disability also suffer from being able to link up sounds with some letters together to form words. However, dyslexia is not a vision problem nor does it affect the intelligence (many people with dyslexia have an average or above- average level). Dyslexia is not curable but in fact, there are many ways to succeed in it. In order for a dyslexic child to reach his/her full potential, parents and educators need to know the early “signs” that are often present in dyslexic children(Wright ).
For Dyslexia there are no diagnostics test, it would have to involve professionals in this subject to identify the disability. Firstly, the school will usually give a “evaluation” to the parents and the child; as in, gather information to identify what the student might be having a difficulty in. There are multiple tests to get a whole understanding on the child; the child will go through a psychological evaluation, interviews, physical exams, observations, educational testing, functional behavioral assessment, and related services for more specific areas of concern (Morin). This “evaluation plan” is
They’ll eventually learn to accommodate and adjust to the classroom. The teachers can help the students by giving them extra time and taking it slow on reading and writing. The teachers will also help them by giving them extra help like hand out letters and numbers strips for students to look at so they can see how to write correctly, show corrected work, arrange worksheets from easiest to hardest, and etc (Morin). They do these certain activities so it helps the students understand what's right to their