Dyslexia
Dyslexia: A Challenging and Often-Misunderstood Learning Disorder
Dyslexia doesn’t have to be roadblock to getting an education and having a successful career. On the contrary, most people who have been dealt a challenging hand with dyslexia also also blessed with tremendous skills. They can excel in a number of areas including art, design, athletics, music, business, strategic planning, engineering, scientific discovery, building and storytelling. But the story doesn’t begin or end there.
Dyslexia is an all-too common condition – one that is confusing and challenging for those afflicted with it. The International Dyslexia Association defines dyslexia as a “specific learning disability that is neuro-biological in origin… characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.” Students with dyslexia are struck particularly harshly, as they are often misunderstood and mistaken to be either unmotivated or simple minded – when nothing could be further from the truth. The big challenge is finding ways to overcome dyslexia, to find effective means of study and work.
Our Proven Methods for Treating & Tackling Dyslexia
Language learning is the foundation on which Mind Over Learning was built. Our dyslexia tutoring and reading programs are based on a modified Orton-Gillingham approach that not only place emphasis on learning to read but also on remediating auditory and visual processing disorders. Mind Over Learning Teaching Consultants are experts at developing desired reading and writing skills.
Remediating dyslexia through dyslexia tutoring is built on 5 interdependent pillars in order for the difficulties to be resolved:
- A clear picture of the student’s learning strengths/weaknesses
- A thorough understanding of the diagnosis
- Properly trained instructors
- An effective program designed specifically for remediating reading disabilities and difficulties
- Remediating auditory and visual processing disorders
Contact us today to learn more about our dyslexia tutoring and treatments!
How We Identify Dyslexia
Mind Over Learning has a team of professionals who have a background in educational testing and experience with properly diagnosing a variety of learning disabilities. With a standardized assessment, we are able to evaluate you or your child’s development levels compared to the average testing outcomes. We start by looking for common signs and symptoms that are associated with dyslexia – they tend to vary based on developmental age.
Through a variety of standardizes tests, we can assess and evaluate symptoms and start to formulate a diagnosis. These tests will measure one’s mental acuity, ability to read, understand, and manipulate sounds, processing skills, and productivity capacity. As part of the assessment, we make sure to identify strengths and weaknesses in order to help create an educational plan that is custom tailored to those specific educational hurdles. No matter the symptoms and difficulties that you face with dyslexia, we have trained dyslexia tutoring professionals who are ready to help!
Signs & Symptoms Of Dyslexia
Pre-school children
- Delayed speech development
- Difficulty with learning sounds and the letters of the alphabet
- Problems with expressing themselves using spoken language
- Struggle with nursery rhymes and rhyming words
School-children
- Confusion with the order of letters in words
- Reading slowly and fumbling over words while reading out loud
- Slow writing speed & poor handwriting
- Visually apparent that they are uncomfortable when reading
Teenagers & Adults
- Difficulty planning and writing reports, letters, and essays
- Poor spelling
- Struggle to remember combination like an address or phone number
- Difficulty expressing thoughts in written form despite adequate knowledge of a subject
