Dyslexia Hypnotherapy Kenilworth
DYSLEXIA
Dyslexia is a specific reading disability due to a defect in the brain's processing of graphic symbols. It is a learning disability that alters the way the brain processes written material and is typically characterized by difficulties in word recognition, spelling, and decoding.
People with dyslexia have problems with reading comprehension. Dyslexia is a neurological and often genetic condition, and not the result of poor teaching, instruction, or upbringing.
The problem in dyslexia is a linguistic one, not a visual one. Dyslexia in no way stems from any lack of intelligence. People with severe dyslexia can be brilliant.
Although it is a neurological condition, dyslexia is not linked to intelligence. The effects of dyslexia vary from person to person. The only shared trait among people with dyslexia is that they read at levels lower than typical for people of their age.
Symptoms and traits of dyslexia
Dyslexia spelled out in letters.
Dyslexia commonly causes difficulties in word recognition, spelling, and decoding.
Dyslexia is different from delayed reading development, which may reflect mental disability or cultural deprivation.
The most common signs and symptoms associated with dyslexia can be displayed at any age, but they normally present in childhood.
Childhood symptoms of dyslexia include:
Difficulty in learning to read
The child, despite having normal intelligence, receiving proper teaching, and parental support, has difficulty learning to read.
Milestones reached later
Dyslexic children may learn to crawl, walk, talk, and ride a bicycle later than the majority of others.
Slow speech development
Apart from being slow to learn to speak, a dyslexic child may commonly mispronounce words, find rhyming extremely challenging, and not appear to distinguish between different word sounds.
Slow at learning sets of data
At school, dyslexic children may take much longer than other children to learn the letters of the alphabet and how they are pronounced. There may also be problems remembering the days of the week, months of the year, colors, and some arithmetic tables.
Coordination
A dyslexic child may seem clumsier than their peers. Catching a ball may be difficult. Poorer eye-hand coordination may be a symptom of other similar neurological conditions, including dyspraxia.
Left and right
Commonly, a dyslexic child gets "left" and "right" mixed up.
Reversal
Numbers and letters may be reversed without realizing.
Spelling
Some dyslexic children might not follow a pattern of progression seen in other children. The child may learn how to spell a word and completely forget the next day.
Speech problems
If a word has more than two syllables, phonological processing becomes much more challenging. For example, with the word "unfortunately" a person with dyslexia may be able to process the sounds "un" and "ly," but not the ones in between.
Concentration span
Children with dyslexia commonly find it hard to concentrate. Many adults with dyslexia say this is because, after a few minutes of non-stop struggling, the child is mentally exhausted. A higher number of children with dyslexia also have ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), compared with the rest of the population.
Sequencing ideas
When a person with dyslexia expresses a sequence of ideas, they may seem illogical or unconnected.
Autoimmune conditions
People with dyslexia are more likely to develop immunological problems, such as hay fever, asthma, eczema, and other allergies.
Causes of dyslexia
A child doing homework
A child with dyslexia may have more difficulty than usual in reading, spelling, and concentrating.
Specialist doctors and researchers are not precisely sure what causes a person to develop dyslexia.
Some evidence points to the possibility that the condition is genetic, as dyslexia often runs in families.
Two chief causes of dyslexia are:
Genetic causes of dyslexia - a team at the Yale School of Medicine found that defects in a gene, known as DCDC2, were associated with problems in reading performance.
Acquired dyslexia - a small minority of people with dyslexia acquired the condition after they were born. The most common causes of acquired dyslexia are brain injuries, stroke, or some other type of trauma.
According to the University of Michigan Health System, dyslexia is the most common learning disability. 80 percent of students with learning disabilities have dyslexia.
The International Dyslexia Association estimates that 15-20 percent of the American population have some of the symptoms of dyslexia, including slow or inaccurate reading, poor spelling, poor writing, or mixing up similar words.
Dyslexia affects people of all ethnic backgrounds, although a person's native language can play an important role. A language where there is a clear connection between how a word is written and how it sounds, and consistent grammatical rules, such as Italian and Spanish, can be easier for a person with mild to moderate dyslexia.
Languages such as English, where there is often no clear connection between the written form and sound, as in words such as "cough" and "dough," can be more challenging for a person with dyslexia.
Clinical Hypnosis can be a excellent way to help those with dyslexia helping them deal with low self esteem and lack of confidence issues. Some of the side effects associated with dyslexia can cause a phobia of reading or writing in front of others, panic attacks, memory blanks, concentration and many other problems & can affects a person for a lifetime. However, Clinical Hypnosis can aid the unconscious mind into developing certain skills that are absent in people with dyslexia and this in turn will eliminate unwanted side effects of the disorder & increase the person confidence & ability to cope with everyday tasks
Research has shown that our unconscious mind makes 90% of our decisions and that behaviors are established at a very young age. The unconscious mind’s primary function is to protect us. However, behaviors learned at a young age are not always helpful in dealing with issues that we face as adults. Although our conscious mind knows how to deal with situations rationally, the unconscious mind which is the driving force, can create a raft of limiting and unhelpful behaviors because of early programming.
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