Dyslexia, a lasting difficulty in learning to read and in acquiring automatism, seems to reveal its secrets hidden deep in our eyes. But what exactly is this disorder that affects 10% of children?
Six million French people are at the start of their school life with dyslexia, that is to say they will confuse letters of similar and mirrored shapes such as “q” and “p”, or very similar sounds like the “v” and the “f”. It is understandable that this is often accompanied by difficulties in learning to read and write. But also behavioral disorders. They are often hyperactive children, clumsy in their movements. All this having an impact on school results. Because of these 6 million French people, they will be nearly a million to really suffer from it, to the point of having professional integration difficulties.
Twist the neck of a legend
It is neither parents nor teachers who are responsible for this learning problem. Likewise, we do not necessarily find an emotional origin for this disorder.
Today, we are moving towards a biological disorder which ultimately opens the way to an easier and more radical treatment than that which is proposed today. The discovery of abnormal visual receptors allows us to consider re-education of our eye and therefore dyslexia.
The robot portrait of the little dyslexic
In 75% of cases, this is a rather left-handed or ambidextrous boy. But that is not enough for screening, which is actually quite straightforward for a vigilant teacher or parents. A slow, laborious reading, a bad spelling in a child who is nevertheless attentive and good at arithmetic should alert, especially if there are already similar cases in the family. However, 10 to 12% of French people who cannot read correctly in a country as structured as ours is inadmissible, especially since there are solutions today.
Speech therapists and speech therapists are the ones who know best about this problem, which traditional medicine has long loosely abandoned to them. Before contacting them, it is useful to seek the advice of the general practitioner or the pediatrician who must now know to whom to refer dyslexics. Especially since new fairly revolutionary techniques are emerging from changes in posture or LED strobe lights. Because since the arrival of examinations as complex as the scanner and MRI, neurologists and ophthalmos have been interested in the problem.
And all this goodwill now makes it possible to cure most of the dyslexia treated fairly early on.
In conclusion, it is especially important that parents are not dismayed by the discovery of dyslexia, because taken in time, it can be perfectly controlled. And this is not a defect, but on the contrary, the sign of remarkable intellectual capacities that we just have to know a little more difficult to highlight.
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