What is the treatment for dyslexia?
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First off, "treatment" isn't quite the right word. The term implies that with treatment someone might become less dyslexic, or even be cured. It doesn't work that way. Dyslexia is considered a learning disability, which basically means that it's a way of processing external stimuli that doesn't mesh well with what kids are expected to do in modern society. It's in no way an inferior way of processing things - Albert Einstein was dyslexic - just a different one, that makes it hard to benefit from the particular methods used in a traditional classroom. The "treatment" for any learning style is essentially to adapt the reaching style to the student's learning style. Because dyslexia is generally used to describe virtually any learning disability that primarily effects reading and writing, there's no standard method that's going to work for all dyslexic kids.
Dyslexic kids will generally learn to read much later than their peers, but with enough support, most will get it eventually. One of the most important things for a dyslexic child is to understand that the trouble they're having at school is the result of a learning disability, and doesn't mean they're not smart. A lot of kids with any learning disability will give up on school without reaching their full potential because they think they're just not smart enough to do it.
Books on tape can help a lot, even for older students who are already reading, as dyslexic people tend to read quite slowly even if they're reading otherwise at grade level. I've also found that following along with the recording in the printed rate can help improve reading speed and fluency. There's an organization called Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic that provides audio books to people with any disability that effects their ability to read printed text at low cost, and they can come up with almost any book, whether there's a commercially available audio version or not (they do their own recordings, so members can even request books for them to record).
I had a teacher in second grade who told my parents that it wasn't a learning disability, it was just an attitude problem, and I could spell if I wanted to. Now, according to an NIH study, dyslexia is caused by a dominant mutation on the short arm of chromosome six, and is characterized by neuro-anatomical abnormalities that are visible on various types of brain scans. The point is, it is NOT made up.
Various studies have claimed that colored lenses or eye movement therapies can cure dyslexia. This is complete and udder BS. Not only are these studies completely devoid of scientific credulity, but dyslexia is not even a vision problem. Dyslexic people see just fine (hey, I'm dyslexic and I have 20/10 vision), but process that image differently. What color an image is doesn't change how it's processed. It's an issue with processing visual information, not with acquiring it, so changing the way visual information is acquired is not going to fix it.
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