1. DYSLEXIA

2. What is dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a disorder that is inherited through past ancestors and effects the part of the brain that is in charge of reading and writing and is incurable because it’s not technically a disorder because is seen mostly as a different way for the brain to process information. But Dyslexia can still effect a persons life significantly making it harder for them to count, read, and write as well as other people around them. Dyslexia can also increase a persons chances of getting ADHD and vice versa.

3. Common characteristics
There are a few common characteristics in people who have dyslexia some of them are that the person is labeled lazy, isn’t behind enough to need special help, tested well orally but not with paper and pen, seems to zone out or daydream, complains about dizziness and head aches while reading, hears thing that aren’t said or heard by someone, easily distracted by sounds, can be ambidextrous, easily confuses left and right, over and under, pencil grip is unusual, clumsy, excellent memory for experiences poor memory for unexperienced information, unusually high/low tolerance for pain, can be the class clown, trouble maker or too quiet, bed wets beyond appropriate age.

4. Symptoms Before school School age Teen/Adult Late talking
Problems with spelling
Hard time reading
Learning new words slowly
Reading under age level
Difficulty with math problems
Hard time learning nursery rhymes
Trouble understanding what they hear
Trouble with phrases that aren’t specific “piece of cake”
Problems with fast instructions
Problems summarizing a story
Unable to pronounce a new word
Hard to manage time
Hard time memorizing
Symptoms

5. How people get it
Dyslexia isn’t contagious but it can be caused by accidents or be inherited and does run in families and is different for every person you could have an uncle that’s slightly dyslexic and have a hard time spelling and you become highly dyslexic and have a hard time pronouncing words and learning new languages. Dyslexia could also affect everyone in the family slightly and in different ways like reading, spelling, pronunciation, memorizing, counting, etc. There is another type of dyslexia called trauma Dyslexia and can occur from an accident that caused damage to the part of the brain that controls reading and writing.

6. Myths
Dyslexia effects more boys then girls.
Dyslexia is an eye problem and only dyslexics reverse their p’s q’s b’s and d’s.
Smart people can’t be dyslexic and if you are dyslexic you can’t be smart.
People with Dyslexia are unable to read.
Truth
It is actually pretty equal more boys are diagnosed because of their behavior though.
Actually very few people with dyslexia reverse their letters and even people without dyslexia can reverse their letters.
Actually a dyslexic can have a higher IQ then almost every one in their class on example would be Einstein who was dyslexic and had an IQ of 160 (140 considered a genius).
People who have Dyslexia are actually able read but have a hard time and take longer to read then most people because they have Dyslexia.

7. Ways to deal with Dyslexia
There are multiple ways to deal with dyslexia in your life some examples are:
Listening to music, Music is a good way to deal with dyslexia because it’s not reading or writing and if you listen to something you like it can help you calm down and deal with the hard parts of Dyslexia.
Learn new things, go learn how to knit, swim, cook, sing, fish, dance, play instruments, learn martial arts, gymnastics, and anything else you want to learn or get a hobby make friends just have fun.
Doing other things, Just because you’re Dyslexic doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything you are able to play sports, video games, instruments, or you could go ride a bike, or just hang out with your friends.

8. Solutions that could work
There are a few ways people learn even though they have Dyslexia one way is with multisensory learning, multisensory learning is when a person learns something using multiple senses like hearing, seeing, and touching how young kids would learn their ABC’s is they would see the letter make the sound and write it in the air with their fingers and has worked with some people with Dyslexia but Dyslexia is different for everybody so some people will have to use different ways to learn this is just one.

9. bibliography
“Understanding Dyslexia” By Emily Lapkin, Reviewed by Elizabeth Babbin M.Ed Apr
“Dyslexia” By Mayo Clinic Staff , Made on Aug 08, 2014,
“37 Common Characteristics of Dyslexia” By Ronald D. Davis in 1992,
dyslexia.yale.edu “Myths (and Truths) About Dyslexia” By unknown
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