Dyslexia Although Not As Common Term Paper

Samuel T. Orton in 1925. This method involves placing a patch on the non-dominant eye of the individual, active training of the non-dominant hand and refraining from listening to non-verbal music. Like the above-mentioned "treatment," this method has also been discarded by dyslexia professionals, due to the lack of hard evidence.

The most common form of treatment for dyslexia today is related to the use of special techniques which train dyslexic individuals to "rapidly and accurately identify words" which helps to build word recognition skills by "increasing the number of words (one) can recognize effortlessly and without thought." Basically, this method, i.e. "automatic word recognition," is based on the suggestion that words "are recognized by thinking about them" which makes reading "a laborious process." Overall, this method allows the individual with dyslexia to "instantly identify words without having to sound them out" which has been shown to "greatly increase reading fluency and reading comprehension" ("Dyslexia: Causes, Symptoms & Treatments," Internet). As to future treatments, the best route appears to be intensive brain scans to reveal which parts of the brain are deficient, i.e., the parts of the brain that cause dyslexia in the first place.In conclusion, the future will certainly bring about new methods and techniques for the treatment of dyslexia and will hopefully shed new light on the exact nature of dyslexia related to its physical manifestations in the human brain. The group of disorders now known as specific learning difficulties will surely be separated into specific types and conditions which will lead to better and more effective treatment options for those disabled with dyslexia.

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