Exactly Why Is Testing For Dyslexia So Important? And What More Could You Know Once You Have Taken A Dyslexic Test?
Dyslexia can be described as a condition that affects one's ability to manipulate symbols and sounds. It typically appears as difficulties in reading, going backwards and forwards from letters to words and sounds, to meaning. As people do if they read aloud, as an example.
A dyslexic person's eyes see things the same as a non-dyslexic's eyes. But with the dyslexic, the brain interprets the signals received differently. You don't "catch" dyslexia, you're born with it. Roughly 1 out of every 10 has some kind of dyslexia, to some degree. Going for a test for dyslexia would be the best way to know for certain whether anyone is dyslexic.
A dyslexic person can learn to do practically anything the non-dyslexics do, but dyslexics learn in different ways. They need to be taught in the manner in which they are able to learn. Otherwise, they might never "get it" by themselves, then get frustrated and give up, thereby shutting out an entire sector of learning and possibilities for themselves.
Currently, school-age children are routinely screened for dyslexia, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, it has only been during the last 15 or so years that screening and testing for dyslexia has been the rule, not the exception.
Virtually all adults who graduated from elementary school over fifteen years ago haven't been tested. Consequently there's around 2 million dyslexic adults in the USA alone.
What makes them difficult to find and help is the manner the educational system treated them as children. They were not understood. They got branded as dull, lazy, underachievers and mental defectives (which nearly all were definitely not!) They were injured and made to feel ashamed of their differences. As defense mechanisms to shield themselves, they learned to hide most of these differences.
Today you can find them as people working at jobs far below what their intelligence would indicate they were qualified for. This in order to avoid paperwork, having to read anything in their work. A simple dyslexic test could set them on the road to overcoming dyslexia and opening a whole new world of possibilities...
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