Dyslexia and Dyspraxia

There is some evidence to suggest genetics play a part in developmental dyslexia (you are born with it). If a child has one dyslexic parent then a boy has a 50% chance of being dyslexic, a girl has a 25% chance. However, it sometimes skips the female children but they become carriers for their children. Check the web sites of the British Dyslexia Association for references and details.

No mate its not deadly or anything like that. It just means your gunna have learning disabilities like reading or writing and you might get teased or something like that.

I'm 27 and ive got dyslexia I had a hard time at school but after that I'm fine I've got a great job.

Dyslexia is in fact considered a reading disability, and depending on the severity of your dyslexia, can act much in the same way as a disability. so yes, dyslexia is, in many cases, considered a disability.

Yes I am a 55 yr old women. I suffered in grade school and beyond.

Self esteem ruined,

I entered into an abusive marriage, self worth was zero.

I escaped, grew, regained joy, married again,

now awaiting our daughters wedding.

I served over twenty years in nursing, became a writer .

living a good life.

Without anyone knowing about my dyspraxia....

What wonders I could have achieved if someone had intervened?

It was not until Sting's wife Trudy wrote about their son Jake in 1994 Bazaar

did I have a clue....17 yrs ago.

It was not until this week ,when I found the article again and read it , I

cried like a baby, I could barely read through my tears, I realized how profoundly it had affected my life.

Now I have new hope for my 6 yr old grandson.

Go to a doctor, see if he diagnoses you with dyslexia.

Dyslexia can go away. Well, it almost can go away. just "fak ei ttil' you make it".

That's a really good question! Dyslexia comes in all shapes and sizes, anything from getting your left and right confused, to a complete inability to read language in any form whatsoever. Dyslexia can be anywhere from a slight annoyance, to a complete debilitating disorder! I have dyslexia that is extraordinarily severe, and I am writing this post with voice recognition software because of it. My dyslexia is pretty much debilitating. Some people who say they have dyslexia merely get their left and right or red and green confused, and then there are people like me who can't even read signs telling them not to touch live wires. As you can see, dyslexia is a pretty wide spectrum.

NO, Autism is nothing like dyslexia, Dyslexia is a trouble with percieving reading, autism is a completely different mindset

... then apparently you also have trouble forming complete and coherent sentences.

That aside, "dyslexia" refers to a difficulty in reading, due in part to mistaking visually similar letters such as b and d. Since you didn't actually finish your question, it's hard to say what else you wanted to know about it.

Whilst this is true dyslexia just means that you have different abilities and difficulties than "the norm". For example spelling and reading may be some of the things that you find most difficult. But when other people cannot see things from a different angle and cannot find solutions to problems, YOU CAN. A lot of dyslexic people are a lot more creative. AND within the sector of the world deemed "exceptionally successful" 40% are dyslexic opposed to the 10% of the overall population of dyslexics. This shows that dyslexic people can do anything they want should they want too. :)

well there are many different ways that it could affect your body's nervous system............but here are a few: it 1st off would surtanatly make you very frustrated and cause you to get stressed out very easley, it also can have an affect on your tempure, and casue you to get mad or angry due to part of the stress issues and also because of the lack of consontration your body is able to handle because of the dyslexia..............and than 1 other 1 i know of is it can sometimes cause you to be sad because of your learning disabilities and sometimes you just feel left out, sometimes you might feel like your dumb, or maybe even be jelous of other kids who are smarter than you..........

p.s. i hope this info was helpful! please comment back to whom ever posted/asked this question..........:) thanks

Dyslexia is a condition which makes it difficult to learn how to read. This is because the brain does not process certain symbols or letters which makes each word not appear correctly to the person.

There are no "causes" of dyslexia......I have a mild case of dyslexia......dyslexia is passed down in the genes like no parents have dyslexia you chance is a 1% if one parent has it then 50% if both them about 95% chance and if no parents but like if grandma and granpa have then about a 5% hope this helped if not then sooo sorry

There is probably no one in the world better equipped to answer this question and yours truly. I have extremely severe dyslexia, and I'm writing this post with voice recognition software because of it. My dyslexia works something like this: no matter how hard I try I can not learn to read, I cannot learn to write or spell either. When I look at the letters they dance around, some of them turning as those they are on skateboards, some of them merely sharply moving towards the center of the page and then back out. I can not process how the English language works, the words won't stand still long enough for me to sound them out, and it is so frustrating! I literally can not read anything. As you can imagine, that makes life very difficult! So I guess my answer to your question would be as follows: the inability to process the English language, the sensation that the letters are moving around the page uncontrollably, and in extreme difficulty in spelling and handwriting.

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if you are dyslexic, you most likely will have reading issues, but not all the time.

Dyslexia isn't the kind of thing you 'get,' it's something that you have. Like Asperger's, autism, ADD, or brown hair.

It can be diagnosed and treated at any age, but it often goes undiagnosed and untreated.

reading and writing

No. However, individuals with ADHD are more likely to have dyslexia.

I learned that ADHD is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Being married to my wife who has dyslexia has taught me that the subject can be saying just the opposite of what they actually mean. Dyslexia is where the brain does not process information correctly and turns things around when they speak or think.

This question is a bit biased; as many of those with high-functioning autism see it not as a curse, but a gift.

But common brain disorders which would be considered more debilitating than autism include Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's chorea.

It is most likely dyslexia. Another good person to check with would be an eye doctor, because your daughter may need glasses. Also see a doctor who specializes in learning disorders, he can properly diagnose her.

I got this by goggling the subject on the National Autistic Society-Driving.

http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=119&a=12991

their site is added below related links.

The NAS Autism Help line occasionally gets asked about the rights of people with autism in relation to learning to drive. As autism is a spectrum disorder it is impossible to say that people with autism either should or should not be allowed to drive. Some people with autism may find this skill extremely difficult to grasp, while others will be highly competent drivers.

ORIGIN late 19th cent.: coined in German from dys- [difficult] + Greek lexis 'speech'(apparently by confusion of Greek legein 'to speak' and Latin legere 'to read' ).

It is not 'treated' . You learn to live with it and find 'different' ways of learning and reading. Coloured glasses can help to read better but you need the 'right' colour for your eyes. Persistence is also important when reading. There are advantages to being dyslexic in that you learn in different ways.