Concerning 10% of children, a study on dyslexia shows the extent of the task faced with an identified but little understood disability, which impacts school life, professional success and daily life.
If your child has trouble learning to read or write, you and especially the teachers must ask themselves the question: might he not be dyslexic? The French are demanding more information and support. This is shown by the exclusive survey carried out by OpinionWay “The French and dyslexia”, the 1time gender in France, on the occasion of World Day of Dys and
The conclusions are clear:
- 81% have heard of it, but 84% say they know nothing about it.
- Many parents in particular believe that it is linked to the methods of learning to read, which is also false.
- 53% of parents would like campaigns to detect dyslexia to be strengthened from an early age.
Six million French people concerned at the start of their school life
Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty in learning to read and acquiring its automaticity. Six million French people are dyslexic at the start of their school life, that is to say that they will confuse letters of similar shapes such as “q” and “p”, very similar sounds such as “v” and the “f”. This is often accompanied – understandably – by difficulties in learning to read and write. But also behavioral problems. They are often hyperactive children, clumsy in their gestures. All of this has an impact on school results. Because of these 6 million French people, there will be nearly a million to really suffer from it, to the point of having difficulties with professional integration.
Still in the study:
- 64% of French people believe that dyslexia is an obstacle to the practice of certain hobbies (reading for pleasure, theatre).
- 40% of French people consider the disorder as a hindrance to social life, and even 25% to love life.
- 70% of respondents feel that people with dyslexia are more often victims of insults and teasing than others.
- 52% of French people believe that dyslexia is an obstacle to access to employment, 57% think that it prevents access to jobs with responsibility, and 55% that it does not allow professional development
We must immediately wring the neck of a legend. Neither parents nor teachers are responsible for this learning problem. Similarly, there is not necessarily an emotional origin to this disorder. Today, we are moving towards a biological disorder which eventually opens the way to an easier and more radical treatment than that which is proposed today.
If we had to draw a composite portrait of the little dyslexic, we can say that in 75% of cases it is a rather left-handed boy. But this is not enough for screening, which is actually quite simple for a vigilant teacher or parent. A slow, laborious reading, a bad spelling in a child who is nevertheless attentive and good in calculation, should alert all the more so as 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.
It is speech therapists and phoniatrists who are most familiar with this problem, which traditional medicine has long abandoned to them. Before contacting them, it is useful to seek the opinion of the general practitioner or the pediatrician who must now know to whom to address dyslexics. Especially since new rather revolutionary techniques are emerging from changes in posture. Because since the arrival of examinations as complex as CT and MRI, neurologists and ophthalmologists have taken an interest in the problem.
And all these good wills today make it possible to cure most of the dyslexias taken care of quite early.
Interference problems between the right and left brain
Current hypotheses point towards the brain with problems of interference between the right and left brain and the struggle for dominance. is therefore ambidextrous and its two brains are in competition. Dyslexia can even be the harbinger of remarkable abilities. The intelligence of the child is in no way affected, on the contrary. Rehabilitation can be long but brings good results. However, you must continue to watch your child closely and surround him so that his dyslexia does not lead him to aggressiveness.
In conclusion, parents must above all not be dismayed by the discovery of dyslexia, because taken in time, which militates to strengthen screening, it can be suppressed and it is not a defect, but on the contrary the sign of remarkable intellectual capacities which it will be necessary just to know a little more difficult to highlight.