Currently, keep myself busy reading this book. Got it from Borders (RM60.90)
The 1st chapter focused on the stress on children living with dyslexia
* He mispronounced many words, leaving off the beginning (lephant for elephant) or the ends of words, or inverting the order within a word (emeny for enemy). He had trouble finding the exact word he wanted to say even though it seemed he could tell you all about it.
* a student described dyslexia as "the beast", an unknown predator that silently stalks him, continually disrupting his life. The hidden nature of dyslexia - not knowing what to expect or when the difficulty will manifest itself - fills this student with apprehension " "its as if it is lying there, waiting for me to make a wrong move, & then all of a sudden its there taunting me"
* Dyslexia not only how a person reads but other important functions as well, including to spell words, to retrieve words, to articulate words, and to remember certain facts.
* She had memorised a few words that she could read by rote, but if shown a new word, she could barely begin to sound it out. Instead, she would call out words she knew, which generally had no relation to the word on page. Sometimes she knew the first letter, for example, when shown the word boy, she blurted out bat.
* She had difficulty pronouncing long names and trouble finding the right word to say. She had long pauses and many um's when she was speaking. Her inability to identify some of the sounds of the letters of the alphabet persisted.
* He mispronounced many words, leaving off the beginning (lephant for elephant) or the ends of words, or inverting the order within a word (emeny for enemy). He had trouble finding the exact word he wanted to say even though it seemed he could tell you all about it.
"A student described dyslexia as "the beast", an unknown predator that silently stalks him, continually disrupting his life."
ReplyDeleteBingo! This is exactly how I feel in the past 20 over years until I got my diagnosis...