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<h2>How High Visual Intelligence Can Cause Apparent Dyslexia</h2> <p> In every class you will find children displaying this phenomenon.<br /><br />There will be bright children in the class, who work hard but struggle to read.<br /><br />Stranger still, everything seems OK at first. But then they start to fall behind and eventually hit a plateau at around the age of 6 or 7. As the text gets more complicated they start to guess wildly and they become steadily more confused.<br /><br />And then their confidence collapses under the pressure. They can feel everyone's concern and don't know what to do to fix the problem.<br /><br />Because people are not trained to recognise this pattern, it is often diagnosed as dyslexia. But that is quite wrong.<br /><br />Dyslexia suggests there is some underlying problem that cannot be overcome.<br /><br />But these children are usually just trying to read the wrong way. There is no reason why they should not be able to read.<br /><br />Let me explain what's happening.<br /><br />A very visual child will find the alphabet easy to memorise. Then the first words they are show they will memorise as well. Everyone praises their progress and as far as they know, they are reading. The early reader books feed into this by using a very limited vocabulary that repeats a lot.<br /><br />So all seems well.<br /><br />But problems develop as the text starts to use a broader range of words. Some children will naturally switch to scanning the words phonetically.<br /><br />Others cannot naturally distinguish the sounds within the words (phonemes) and so cannot relate them to the letter patterns that represent them in text (graphemes). At least not without quite a bit of careful instruction.<br /><br />And these are the children that get stuck.<br /><br />They become more and more addicted to wild guessing, using the context and the first letter of the word as cues.<br /><br />They are frustrated and puzzled by their situation and don't know the way out of it. They can sense the frustration of their teacher and parents, but have actually been doing their best.<br /><br />Without expert guidance, these children will become part of the 20% who still cannot read properly by the age of 11. Their academic career and earning potential for the rest of their lives hangs in the balance at this moment.<br /><br />And that is a tragedy for each of them because they are just trying to read the wrong way. We routinely see them successfully crack it in just a matter of weeks.<br /><br />The label dyslexic is very dangerous. It lets everyone off the hook of actually finding a solution. And still consigns the child to a lower and tougher track through life. <p style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top:5pt"> <font face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt">Article Source: <a href="http://www.ArticlesMaker.com">ArticlesMaker.com</a></font></p> <h3>About the Author</h3> To read more detail on <a href="http://www.easyreadsystem.com" target="_blank">how to help a child learn to read</a> visit our site. There is a range of information on techniques to cure almost every form of <a href="http://www.easyreadsystem.com/info/dyslexia.html" target="_blank">dyslexia</a>. It's often quite easy!

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