“Specific learning disabilities, and first and foremost developmental dyslexia, which is the most frequent and best studied form, concern approximately 6 to 8% of the population of school-aged children and 4% of adults. »Recalls the Academy of Medicine in a press release.
However, this disease is not inevitable and, to avoid academic failure and illiteracy, the Academy of Medicine recommends certain interventions to prevent certain disabilities or correct them.
Screen for neurocognitive disorders
For the management of neurological disorders, it is essential to strengthen the links and generalize a close collaboration between medical and educational skills so as to detect neurocognitive disorders as early as possible and more particularly, specific learning disorders.
Promote the role of paramedical professions
To identify and confirm dyslexia as well as to propose appropriate treatments, it is necessary “to reaffirm the place and the essential role in the course of care of the various paramedical professions (speech therapists, but also psychomotor therapists, occupational therapists and neuropsychologists), according to the Academy. .
Reorient research and training
For the Academy of Medicine, combating dyslexia also involves training and research. “It is also essential to promote the training of doctors (general practitioners and specialists) in the field of neurocognitive and behavioral development (learning disorders) both through initial education and through the creation of a national interuniversity diploma open to paramedical professions, and to upgrade the corresponding specialized acts ”. “And to stimulate and set up research programs oriented primarily towards the evaluation of therapeutic practices”.
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