Learning Disabilities and Diagnosis of Dyslexia : Essay

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Learning Disabilities and Diagnosis of Dyslexia : Essay

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1PART ONE ..................................................................................................................................1PART TWO ................................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

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INTRODUCTIONLearning disability is related to the difficulty in understanding and learning. Most of thepeople generally confuse it with physical disorder which is a very different thing (Leij, 2013).Their is a general perception that if someone is not normal than it means that he/she is mentallyretarded. If a person behave in awkward way then there is a high probability that they have somedisability. Dyslexia is condition which is normally find in the teenagers. A child have normalintelligence in this case but they cannot face various kind of trouble in the reading. This essaywill discuss about the thinking of society towards learning disabilities and the background todiagnosis of dyslexia. Key legislations and their impact will also become part of this report.Some strategies for empowering disable people will be included under this project. Their arevarious agencies who are trying to train professionals so they can provide better service to thechildren who are suffering from any learning difficulty. Their work will be analysed in thisassignment. PART ONE Mark is a teenager who is coping with a learning disability of dyslexia. People may thinkthat he is weak student but they have not seen his creative side. Drawing and making innovativestuff from garbage are some of his main hobbies. He like to spend most of the time his pets,normally other children of his age do not like to include him at the time of playing any sports. Hedoes not complain about it because of his introvert nature and his friends make his fun he fail tounderstand the basic rules of the game. Mark has many drawing books and he spend at-leastcouple of hour daily on filling these magazines. He like to collect insignificant stuff like emptycane of Coke. His creative skills are remarkable, he has interest in making different kind ofgadget from these useless stuff. He also like to watch cartoon serials and he has an ability todraw mesmerising pictures of his favourite character. Mark has a elder brother who is very intelligent. He is topper of his class and he is veryactive in extra curriculum activities. Mark's father work in a multi-national corporation, he ishead of marketing department in this company and most of the time he is on a tour. His fatherhas a strict nature and Mark sometime find him intimidating. His mother is a home-maker andprimary care-giver. She knows that Mark has dyslexia and she provide her teach her at homebecause he cannot understand or learn new things in less time. She normally try to use games,which Mark like, so he take interest in studies.She never ask him to speak in public and1

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introduce Mark to family members until he get necessary confidence. Once Mark is feelcomfortable then she introduce it to the family members. She appraise him for various kind ofdrawings which he make in no time. They live in a flat but sometime for treatment Mark has tostay in learning support centre for one or two months. He like to attend the events which arerelated to painting. Every child who is suffering from the disability of dyslexia should be seen aswhole (Raschle, Chang and Gaab, 2011). He may not read a book in a proper or right spelling ofa word in three different way in a single sentence but this does not mean that he is different.Mark like to attend various events which are organised by learning support centre. He findpeople with similar problems and some highly qualified tutor in these programmes. Theyunderstand his thinking in a better way and treat him in an appropriate manner. Markcommunicate in normal way but he fail to make people understand the exact thing that isrunning in his mind. He does not have much confidence in his personality and this is the primeproblem for him. Even he know the right answer, because of his poor communication skill, hecannot tell it to the teacher. Some of the sensors of Mark are not working properly, he cannotjudge the speed of a ball which is coming to his direction. At the age of 12, a student can easilyread the books and poem but Mark cannot right letter like A,Z etc. sometime. He does not haveany mobility and any additional heath issue. Sensory issue are the main hurdle for him in understanding the velocity of an object(Ramus and Ahissar, 2012). If someone ask him to throw ball in right direction then he throw isin a completely different side. This issue stops him for participating in various sports events. Aperson like Mark who can make mesmerising paintings cannot has very poor writing. This isbecause of his learning difficulty. Dyslexia is more about mental trauma compare to any physicaldisability (Lobier, Zoubrinetzky and Valdois, 2012). People think that if a person cannot read abook or write a single line properly then how can they earn their livelihood in upcoming time.Mark often complain that the prime cause behind his inability to read a book is that he sees letterflying. This is not a mental defect, it is related to the sensory issues. Mark cannot ride a bikebecause of his weak sensors and he fail to understand the speed of and direction of a projectwhich is coming towards him. His hand-eye coordinator is not fine and this is the prime reasonthat he cannot throw a ball in a direction where he want to throw it. Normally people think that if a person is suffering from Dyslexia then he cannot go inmainstream school (Elliott and Grigorenko, 2014). Their is no need of special kind of schools for2

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