Co-occurring Difficulties
Co-occurring Difficulties Specific Learning Difficulties(SpLD’s) are a family of related conditions with significant overlap and co-occurrence, with dyslexia being the most common. The specific learning difficulties include Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia and ADHD/ADD and all effect the way information is learned and processed. They are of neurological origin, more often hereditary and all are unrelated to intelligence. A plausible cause of […]
Dyslexia in adults
Dyslexia in adults Dyslexia as a learning difference persists into adulthood. Recent years have produced greater understanding among educationalists of the opportunities and challenges of having dyslexia. However this leaves a great many older individuals who have went through an educational system believing they were ‘slow’, unintelligent’, ‘lazy’ and with a ringing in the ear […]
Learning to read
So why do some children have difficulty learning to read and spell? Learning to read is a complex process. It is not a natural development in the way that language is. It must be taught as it’s a product of our cultural development rather than biological evolution. First of all reading can be divided into […]
What is Dyslexia?
Key Facts and characteristics. Definition produced by the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterised by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding difficulties. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that […]
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