What is Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a learning difference that can cause difficulties with learning and work. It affects approximately 1 in 10. (READ MORE)
It occurs on a spectrum with some people mildly affected and others more severely. With the right understanding, accommodations and support people with dyslexia can achieve success in education, the workplace and in wider society. Targeted supports and accommodations are helpful at any age, but providing evidence-based literacy support during the earliest school years is particularly effective.
It is a common, lifelong neurodevelopmental, specific learning difficulty (affecting ~10% of people) that causes challenges with reading, spelling, and writing. It is not a reflection of intelligence, but rather a difference in how the brain processes language, often involving difficulty in accurately decoding and recognizing words.
Key aspects of dyslexia include:
- Symptoms: Slow reading, transposing letters, poor spelling, difficulty with, and, in some cases, trouble with organization and time management.
- Cause: It is often genetic (inherited) and involves neurological differences in how the brain processes written material, often relying more on the right hemisphere.
- Support:
While not curable, it is manageable with tailored, multi-sensory, and structured literacy instruction (phonics-based).
- Diagnosis: Can be diagnosed in children, but is often recognized in adults, too. ( READ LESS )
What is Dyscalculia
Dyscalculia is a specific learning difference that which impairs the ability to grasp and understanding mathematical concepts and number based tasks, including problems solving and calculations. ( READ MORE )
. It can also be called a Math’s learning disability.
The symptoms of Dyscalculia often involves the following:
- Delay in counting skills
- A difficulty in retaining sequences such as days of the week, skip counting or ordering of daily activities.
- Difficulty in retaining steps in calculations such as multiplication or division which might be a result of impaired working memory.
- Learning to tell the time on an analogue clock
- Difficultly in retaining Maths facts such as bonds or timetable facts.
- Maths anxiety
What is Dyspraxia
Dyspraxia is the impairment of motor functions which results in poor fine and gross motor control, messy handwriting and poor comprehension. ( READ MORE )
It is also known as a developmental coordination disorder.
Symptoms are:
- Difficulties with fine motor challenges such as:
Cutting, dressing, colouring and handwriting, turning pages and opening containers.
- Gross motor difficulties include being accident prone or seen as being clumsy, poor posture and or an awkward gait.
These skills can be improved upon with practice and over time. ( READ LESS )