Is Dyslexia a Disability? - Dyslexia Connect
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
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The question of whether dyslexia is a disability is a controversial one. Proponents of using the word disability for dyslexia say that dyslexia clearly impairs an individual's ability to to learn how to read and spell. However, those who reject calling dyslexia a disability insist that calling it that is misleading. They think that the term seems to indicate that dyslexics are not able to learn to read and spell well. In fact, dyslexics can learn to read and spell well with the proper dyslexia tutoring.
In addition, those that reject the use of the word disability for dyslexia say that the term leads to dyslexic children being placed in regular learning disabled classes, where they may not receive the specialized instruction that they need. Parents also worry about having their children labeled as having a learning disability, and they may reject using the term for that reason.
As an alternative, some people have begun calling dyslexia a learning difference instead of a learning disability, since it accurately describes the fact that dyslexics can learn to read and spell; they just need a different approach to written language.
Regardless of how we define dyslexia, the important thing is being able to recognize dyslexia when we see it and know how to effectively deal with it. In this way, we can help dyslexic children become successful learners and reach their potential. In this video, I discuss these different points of view and offer my own.
Peter Groth
CEO
Dyslexia Connect Online Tutoring
I think the fact that I, a dyslexic person, can learn how to read if taught right but a non dyslexic can't learn to do with there brain what comes quite natural to me makes it an advantage. I wouldn't change my dyslexia, but how society sees it. And especially how we are taught. I do think it's important what you call it. All words we use have power and confidence is a big part of us learning things like reading. More importantly words are the building blocks of knowing who we are.
The best thing that ever happened to me was being born with a dyslexic brain. The advantages have helped me to achieve in ways that non-dyslexics might find hard to understand. My abilities to solve problems, size up situations and imagine the possibilities are inherent to my dyslexic mind and the experiences it has caused me to have.
Is it a disability to have a brain type different from the norm - or is it an advantage? I think it depends on who you ask, how you view yourself and how you feel about how others view you.
I had a terrible time in school, not because of dyslexia but because no one understood how to reach and teach my dyslexic mind. If you are 5ft 1" in a community where the average height is 6ft, and basketball is king, do you have a disability? I guess it depends on who you ask and how the short person views him/herself, and how much they care about how others view them. Yes, but, you may say - reading and writing are so much more important than basketball. I tend to agree.
In my capacity as a professional writer, I wrote a book that was placed in a field of competition with 5000 others. My book finished first and was named outstanding book of the year for 2011. I'm wonderfully dyslexic, stand 6ft 2"-- and still, can't sink a basket to save my life :-)
Thank you so much for your videos, thoughts, and dedication to this subject. These are important discussions.
Thanks for sharing, Nelson!
Im 22 and I have dyslexia my dyslexia effects ALL aspects of my life not just spelling and reading, I have leant ways on how to mange it.
Thanks for your comment. Yes, dyslexia can affect many areas of life, as you mentioned.
I have dyslexia too and I also have ADHD and ADD so school is so hard for me
Thanks for your comment, Rose.
Yes dyslexia is a disability! If someone is in a car crash, breaks both there legs and becomes wheel chair bound for 3 years would you class them as disabled for those 3 years?
Of course!
Now say during their 3rd year in a wheel chair they start using a walking frame, then a year on they use canes to walk, are they still disabled?
Id say so.
Now what if they eventually get rid of the cane but still have occasional stiffness and twinges which some days impairs their walking?
I'd still say so to a degree.
Disabled people suffer from disabilities.
Being unable to read and write is a massive disability!
I was diagnosed with dyslexia in middle school. Throughout my primary school years teachers used to say to my mum that I was a nice and polite boy but lazy! That I didn't try in class though in some classes I litterally would fall asleep from trying so hard to read and write.
Primary School went from a place of toys, snacks, story time, play and happiness to one day the teacher introducing letters then words then books. From that day onwards I was a failure. I failed and failed and i failed again. I could not do what everone else seemed to do effortlessly and my self esteem/self worth and confidence spiraled downwards.
With alot of help I eventually learnt to read an write, not as good as some but as well as most and I have learned that life for the most part is what you make it.
But to pretend that dyslexia is not a disability is not only dishonest but also allows for students with dyslexia to not get the funding and extra help they require from an early age thus disabling that child further.
I have not forgotten how much extra tutoring at night and weekends it took for me to catch up and just become mediocre.. try being a child between the ages 6 and 13 and for all those years not being able to do what everyone else is doing and not knowing you have dyslexia! It is alienating, I felt stupid, slow, backwards!
As such Dyslexia has left me with deep mental scars. No child growing up in this modern school system failing from day 1 daily for 5-10 years can not be mentally scared to some point. That is why it is so important to catch dyslexia early and treat it.
Only by dyslexia being a recognised disability will it be caught early in all cases!there for giving every child the right to help and support they need and letting them know that they are not alone!
I havent ever wrote this much on youtube before and I did not know I felt so strongly about this until I watched your video. However now I feel emboldened and empowered to help research this topic further and help out in any way I can.
Thanks for your comment!
I'm dyslexic and I've always referred to it as a disability, though I feel like disorder would've made more sense, but I don't know
Thanks for your comment, Shannon.
Is 1/3 on the Right ih and 3/6 on the left ih dyslexia regards Jacob
+Jacob Mortensen Hi, Jacob. Thanks for your question. Could you clarify that a bit? Do you mean writing those numbers backwards?