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Dyslexia: meaning, symptoms, types and dyslexic activities

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March 21, 2021 by NeuronUP
Letter Discrimination activities for kids with dyslexia

Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder characterized by an impaired ability to recognize words, slow and hesitant reading, and poor reading comprehension.

This neurodevelopmental disorder is estimated to affect approximately one in ten children, there by leading to severe difficulties in school. Therefore, detecting this disorder early is important in order to deal with this situation and improve learning.

Dyslexia: Meaning and Treatment

Most common dyslexia symptoms

Dyslexia does not only refer to difficulties in learning to read and write,but people with this disorder may also experience processing speed problems, difficulties with motor skills, and issues with visual and/or auditory perception. Individuals with this disorder may as well have difficulties with short-term memory, organization, sequencing, and spoken language.

The most common signs of dyslexia are outlined below. It is important, however, to point out that every case of this disorder is unique and as such, someone with this disorder may not exhibit all the following symptoms:

  • Laterality/directionality problems
  • Spatial/temporal difficulties
  • Confusing similar-sounding words
  • Difficulty with articulation or pronunciation
  • Transposing and reversing letters and numbers
  • Reading is labored and filled with errors
  • Concentration problems when reading or writing
  • Difficulty following instructions or learning routines
  • Balance difficulties
  • Difficulty organizing thoughts or ideas
  • Short-term memory issues
  • Difficulty staying focused
  • Difficulty with math skills
  • In some cases–especially in poorly-managed ones–dyslexic individuals have speech difficulties.

Types of dyslexia

To make a classification of it, we will firstmake a distinction between two types: acquired and developmental.

  1. Acquired: caused by brain damage.
  2. Developmental: not caused by a sudden brain insult. The most common type to affect school age children.

There is as well another possible classification based on the patient’s predominant deficits:

  1. Phonological an impairment in the phonological or sublexical route. Phonological dyslexic patients read via the lexical route and infer the words (e.g.: reading “cat” for “cut” and “dog” for “log”). Children can read familiar words, but fail to read new, unfamiliar words, and pseudowords or nonwords.
  2. Surface: an impairment in the visual or lexical route. Surface dyslexic patients read via the sublexical route. Children can read regular words, but have trouble reading words that are irregular (e.g.: yacht or debt). The reading speed of these children decreases with increased word length; they make mistakes that involve omission, addition, or substitution of letters; and they often have difficulty distinguishing homophones (e.g.: hear and here).
  3. Deep: a deficit to both the lexical and the sublexical reading systems (visual and phonological routes). Deep dyslexic patients make many semantic errors and visual errors.

Treatment for dyslexia. Dyslexia activities

How is dyslexia treated? How can kids with dyslexia be helped? Once diagnosed, children should start dyslexia therapy with a specialist to help strengthen learning skills. As part of the treatment, children will under go cognitive stimulation.

Below, NeuronUP provides professionals with a series of activities for helping children with this disorder:

Dyslexia resources: dyslexia activities 

Making words: “Word fishing“

Kids with dyslexia must select individual letters to form words in the correct order. This activity has been designed to train vocabulary, hemineglect and working memory.

Word fishing dyslexia activities for kids

Letter Discrimination: “Camouflaged Letters”

This activity involves finding those words that contain a given letter. This is an useful exercise to train letter discrimination and selective attention.

Letter Discrimination activities for kids with dyslexia - Basic level
Camouflaged Letters, basic level
Letter Discrimination activities for kids with dyslexia
Camouflaged Letters, medium level

Matching Word to Image

As shown in the image, the kid must select the word that matches the picture. This dyslexia worksheet targets discrimination.

Matching Word to Image language dyslexia activity

Word Scramble

This activity consists of rearranging the letters to form the correct word. It trains vocabulary and working memory.

Word scramble rehabilitation activity of dyslexia
Can you see the word?
Category: Activities for LanguageTag: Dyslexia, language rehabilitation, Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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  1. Lily Bridgers

    November 8, 2023 at 9:33 am

    Our family suspects that there’s always been something different with one of my nieces and just yesterday, we all agreed that we should look into getting her an online dyslexia disorder screening program, to be sure. We do appreciate your info on how one particular type of learning disability called dyslexia is typified by sluggish, reluctant reading, poor reading comprehension, and trouble recognizing words. It’s just sad that roughly one in ten children are thought to be affected by this neurodevelopmental disease, which causes significant challenges in the classroom.

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    • NeuronUP

      November 16, 2023 at 12:34 pm

      We’re glad you found this article helpful! We recommend you to have your niece evaluated by a specialist. The professional will give you an accurate diagnosis

      Best regards!

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