Dyslexia Essay, Research Paper

The problem that effects one out of every ten kids

in the United States of America is dyslexia. Although to some people this

disorder may be very noticeable, it can really sneak up on you. Most of

the time kids with dyslexia aren’t recognized until they are about eight

or nine. The most important thing to remember is that is takes time to

solve, and sometimes cannot be cured at all. Dyslexia develops during the

first six months of gestation . Neurons are churned out in the brain’s

ventricular zone. Attached to fibers, the neurons travel to the cerebral

cortex, which contains the language centers. Here they hit a barrier,

stop and take their place in layers above previously deposited neurons,

(which is normal). In the brains of dyslexics, how-ever, there are

breaches in the barrier and the neurons enter them, leaving clumps of

nerve cells called ectopias, which appear to interface with the brain’s

ability to receive and transmit certain messages. They are now finding

that dyslexia can run in the family. If you or your other relatives have

dyslexia that means that there is a chance that your own child could have

it. Unlike what most people think, dyslexia is not to be blamed on the

parent for negligence in teaching reading and writing. Dyslexia is not

any ones fault it simply occurs when the barrier in the language center of

you brain cracks. In some experiments done by the University of Montreal,

they are comparing good adult readers to dyslexic adult readers. In most

cases the adult dyslexics were at about the high school level. When the

adult dyslexics were compared to third graders in matching sounds with

letters, they scored below the eight and nine year olds that were tested.

It’s not just a visual problem, actually they can see the letters fine, it

is more of a comparing problem. Dyslexics usually cannot spell simple

words by just hearing someone speak them to them. Some of the most

confusing words for them are cat and dog. Although over time the symptoms

can be fine-tuned, they never go completely away. As said before dyslexia

is not a disease it cannot be cured with any pill or medicine. The only

cure so far is many long and slow classes of multisensory sessions. These

sessions go through each letter, sound, syllable, etc. until other parts

of the brain help the person to recognize the letters in another helpful

way. The fact that you child may have dyslexia doesn’t mean that they will

be unsuccessful. Some examples of people who have to live(d) with

dyslexia are people like Whoopi Goldberg who is famous for her many roles

in the movie industry, another person is Albert Einstein who is famous for

the theory of relativity, and Winston Churchill the former Prime Minister

of England. As you can see these people were very successful and

influential in their life. In conclusion I have found that children are a

real threat to this disorder, especially in the United States of America.

We may not have the highest illiteracy rate in the world but the children

still need all the language and speech classes that they can fit in their

schedule. Children usually find the ability to read very boring and

unimportant. What we need to be teaching them is how much the skilled

reader is important to the world around them and that they cannot do many

things without being able to read. They also need to learn that they

should treasure the fact that they can read, because the children of the

world with dyslexia are much worse off than they are. Dyslexia is a very

serious problem and needs to be researched further.