Steven Bennett
Professor Kerr
En101-23
10/25/2011
It’s a struggle to deal with dyslexia
Surveys show that five to ten percent of the United States population is affected by dyslexia (“reading from scratch”). That means that ten out of a hundred people have to go through every day dealing with the struggles that go with dyslexia. Dealing with the issues that come with dyslexia can be very time consuming. This learning disability can turn an easy task into a very hard and frustrating thing. It turns what should be an easy paper in English class into a very changeling paper. There is no quick fix for this demanding disease. Suffers have to deal with problems like troubles writing, reading, and understanding verbal information.
The struggles that come with dyslexia that deal with writing differ depending on the age group of the sufferer. A common difficulty that is shared among young children with dyslexia is problems rhyming. (what is dyslexia?). In elementary school children begin to write poems. Having difficulty rhyming can make writing a poem a very difficult task. Many school aged children that have dyslexia have trouble with their hand writing (what is dyslexia?). Handwriting is very important in the beginning stages of schooling due to the lack of technology used in the classroom. Teachers could penalize a student because of their poor handwriting. Most teenagers are already disorganized without having to deal with dyslexia. But studies show that teens and adults with dyslexia have difficulty with organization(what is dyslexia?). This can affect a person’s writing because they could not know how to organize a paper properly. When a paper is not organized it is hard to follow and understand.
Reading is a basic tool that makes life a lot easier to live. But having this learning disability can make reading very difficult. The biggest problem that people have when suffering from dyslexia is recognizing phonemes. Phonemes are the basic are the basic parts of speech (understanding dyslexia). Not being able to pronounce and or recognize the sound of a word will make reading very difficult. Another problem that occurs with the ability to read is reversing letters (what is dyslexia?). Common letters that are reversed our b and d. This can make information appear confusing or incorrect. With all of these problems reading many students don’t read at their expected level (what is dyslexia?). With all of these problems combined it is not a surprise that many students read below their expected level.
Having difficulty understanding verbal information can affect someone in and outside of the classroom. In school taking notes may be hard because some teachers only give verbal information, they do not use PowerPoint’s to show the information. A lot of verbal information is shared outside of school. For example; simple instructions given by a boss at a work place could be misunderstood and then performed incorrectly. Due to the difficulty of understanding verbal information many people with dyslexia have trouble understanding jokes (what is dyslexia?). This can make a person’s social life very awkward. Having trouble understanding verbal information does not only affect the information that is coming in but it also the information that someone puts out. This is because if the information you take in does not make sense it is not going to make sense when you try and share the information with others.
Dyslexia is a learning disability that many students struggle with in school. It can hold back the potential of a very bright student. But with hard work and professional help students can overcome this learning disability. With time and practice the severity of the learning disability can be greatly diminished. So when the struggling student turns into an adult they know how to have the patience and the ability to deal with the setbacks that are in front of them.
