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| High Visual Intelligence Can Make Learning To read Difficult |
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| Written by David Morgan |
| Thursday, 24 July 2008 20:59 |
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In every class you will find children displaying this phenomenon. There will be bright children in the class, who work hard but struggle to read. Stranger still, everything seems OK at first. But then they start to fall behind and eventually hit a plateau at around the age of 6 or 7. As the text gets more complicated they start to guess wildly and they become steadily more confused. Eventually their confidence begins to crumble. They can feel the frustration and concern of the adults around them, but don't know what to do. Sometimes this leads to a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is quite wrong. Dyslexia is a broad term that covers any fundamental problem with reading despite normal intelligence. But trying to read the wrong way is not dyslexia. And that is what is happening. Here is what's really happening. A very visual child will find the alphabet easy to memorise. Then the first words they are show they will memorise as well. Everyone praises their progress and as far as they know, they are reading. The early reader books feed into this by using a very limited vocabulary that repeats a lot. So all seems well. But this technique gets more and more difficult as the text gets more complex. Children with a good natural ear for the phonic structure in words will now switch to decoding the words instead. Others cannot naturally distinguish the sounds within the words (phonemes) and so cannot relate them to the letter patterns that represent them in text (graphemes). At least not without quite a bit of careful instruction. And these children are heading for failure They become more and more addicted to wild guessing, using the context and the first letter of the word as cues. They are baffled by their predicament and have no idea why it has gone wrong. They can feel people's frustration, but have actually been working hard. One in five children reach the age of 11 unable to read properly and these children make up a large proportion of that group. It is a disaster for their academic career and working life. And that is a tragedy for each of them because they are just trying to read the wrong way. We routinely see them successfully crack it in just a matter of weeks. The label dyslexic carries a great risk that everyone will just relax into acceptance of the situation as inevitable. That leaves the child to deal with a much harder path through life. About the Author: For more information on helping every child learn to read visit our site. You will find a mass of tips on techniques to cure almost every form of dyslexia. There is usually a solution! Kindly provided by MoneyHunter.org You are welcome to use this article on your own website, if you include the link just before this text. |
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