How Dyslexia Affects Reading and Writing Skills

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Introduction
Language disorder can be regarded as a communication disorder where a person
experiences the difficulty that often persists with time in learning various forms of languages that
could either be spoken, written or even sign language. Such individuals who have language
disorders often have a considerable low language ability that is usually below the expected in
comparison to their age. Language disorders often limit a person's ability to communicate with
others and thus not being in a position to effectively participate in various issues which range
from social to academic (Beech, 2017 ,p.45).
Specific language disorders often tend to affect a pupil's level of literacy. This write-up is
going to determine whether or not the above statement is true and thereby specifying in details
how reading as well as writing skills are affecting by the issue of language disorder such as
dyslexia. The aim and objective of the essay is to analyze how dyslexia affects learning of
different subjects ,how dyslexia affects grammar , how it affects speech and how it results to
other disorders which affects writing skills and reading skills. Therefore, in general, the paper
will focus on the entire disorder and this will be aided by the use of secondary sources which
have relevant information about the topic of study (Bell & McLean, 2016, p.67).
An overview of the language disorders
As mentioned earlier, a language disorder is often characterized by issues such as
difficulties in communication and expression. Various signs and symptoms of language disorder
usually appear at an early stage of a child's development. It is also important to note that
language learning is a really gradual process that relies on a number of issues such as expressive
and receptive skills. Here, expressive ability entails the production of either verbal or gestural

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signals (Berget & Sandnes, 2016 p.60). Receptive ability, on the other hand, refers to the process
of receiving as well as understanding the language. The issue of language disorder is usually
brought about by an impairment either in receptive or expressive abilities or even both. In most
cases, people with language disorders usually have issues when it comes to producing
vocabulary and sentence structures, such individuals cannot make a complete sentence that
makes sense and as a result of this most of the learners have limited capacity as far as
engagement in a conversation is concerned (Berninger, Abbott, Cook & Nagy,2017 p.43).
In our case, the issue of dyslexia is a specific learning disability which deters effective
reading. The disorder is common to kids, adults and it prevents learners from learning correctly
and fluently in the class. This means that dyslexia will affect the comprehension, spelling and
writing skills of the learners in school. Dyslexia is caused by genes and heredity. Most of the
time dyslexia will affect the memory thus affecting the brain activities which will automatically
lead to poor reading and writing skills to the dyslexic learners (Bigozzi, Tarchi, Pinto & Accorti
Gamannossi, 2016 p.123).
How dyslexia affects reading and writing skills
Generally, dyslexia affects the mastery of subjects in school. This shows that learners
with dyslexia face some difficulties when learning different concepts in the school curriculum.
Some of the specific pitfalls experienced in different subjects by learners affected by dyslexia
are;
First learners with dyslexia incur difficulties when learning science in school. Some of
the challenges experienced in reading science by learners with dyslexia include the inability to
use systematic step by step methods in handling experimental methods in a class, inability to

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decode and learn the multisyllabic words in the field of science and also inability to identify key
points or what is important within the textbook (Cameron,Cottone, Murrah & Grissmer,2016
p.34). In addition, dyslexia affects fluency when handling science-related projects and test since
students may be not in the position to recall what they have learned in the class. On another
hand, dyslexia affects the learning of mathematics in class. Learning mathematics in school
requires maximum concentration so as to master key concepts. When learners are affected by
dyslexia you find it's difficult to learn mathematical terminologies, symbols, and inability to
follow specific directionality when solving mathematics related concept. In addition, dyslexia
will lead to difficulties when evaluating mathematical answers and use of step by step approach
in mastering mathematical formulae in class. The other impact is experienced in reading and
learning history and other social subjects in class. Different authors have argued that learners
affected with dyslexia will have difficulties in recalling dates or maps learned in social science.
This means that the learners will not be able to retain different chronological dates marking
occurrence of certain phenomena as explained in social studies. Moreover, dyslexia will not be in
the position to decode and learn the vocabularies outlined in social studies in school. Döhla and
Heim (2016) argue on dyslexia as a learning disorder results to difficulties in learning subjects
such as art and foreign languages(p.65). The two subject's needs maximum participation and
dyslexics are not in the position to retain contents explained in these subjects. Art on its own
needs long term memory to master diagrams and other related concepts. Dyslexics lack adequate
memory to retain or recall classwork concepts thus making it difficult for learners to follow step
by step procedures to complete school projects . In learning foreign language, dyslexic learners
will tend to experience spelling and vocabulary mastering. This shows that dyslexic students will
lack strong foundation on vocabulary and grammar mastering in the school life unless the