How Parents Should Deal With A Dyslexic Child
Parents with dyslexic kids. Not all children are being born the same. So what about parents who are gifted a child with dyslexia? First of all, parents will not be able to see if their kids are dyslexic or not. Unfortunately, dyslexic kids can only be known when you start teaching them a lesson.
Dyslexia is commonly known as a significant, persistent and difficulty with reading, spelling, and writing skills in a child. Well, dyslexia is different for everyone, every individual will show dyslexia in an individual way.
It is not a disease, it’s a condition someone is born with, and it often runs in families. People with dyslexia may look and sound stupid at times, but they are not. They are always the opposite of what people think they are like. Yes, they are very slow, but not stupid. These people work very hard to overcome their learning problems. They struggle from within to be just as normal as other kids.
But what can the parents do? No, you can’t do anything about this. It will take time for them to start learning. They were born like that. The only thing a parent can do is to be patient and support them, be very calm when teaching, do not use harsh words on them, do not scold them, bring them for a checkup with dyslexic psychiatrist monthly for better progression.
There are different types of traits in every dyslexic child, some of them will develop these traits at an early stage, and some of them will develop these traits at a later stage.
Here are the traits of a Dyslexic child:
1. Confused by letters, numbers, words, sequence or verbal explanations.
2. Some can read very well but can’t remember what was read/ some can’t read at all. It will take time for them to be able to read.
3. Difficulty learning to tell the time and learning the language of time such as “ten past two.”
4. Confusing letter and numbers that are similar such as, b/d, 9/6, w/m, s/z, etc.
5. Problem remembering more than one instruction at a time.
6. Difficulty learning sequences such as the alphabet, days of the week, months of the year.
7. Late in learning to talk and read
8. Confusion with before/after, right/left, etc.
9. Difficulty in pronouncing words
10. Difficulty in learning the sounds of letters.
11. Difficulty remembering names and the order of letter when reading
12. “Stumbling” through or guessing at longer words.
Dyslexia brain process information differently than the ones who is not dyslexic. Picture below shows how the normal and a dyslexic brain works. It shows that people with dyslexia use different part of their brain to read than the ones without dyslexia.
At a point in life, parents will start to teach their kids a lesson may be an alphabetical or numbers so their kids will be familiar with those alphabets and numbers, please be aware of the signs above when you are teaching your kids. The above can be the keys for you to detect if your kid is a dyslexic or not.
It’s important as a parent for you to support your child’s efforts by encouraging and assisting your dyslexic kid in reading at home. A dyslexic child may not be good at studies, and won’t excel well in their studies. But they can excel well in other things. Make back up plan for them to boost up their confidence and have success in other areas, such as sports, hobbies, art, and drama. Artists, athletes, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, and lawyers.
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