Essays on Dyslexia

It’s been more than a hundred years since the ideas of Dyslexia and Word Blindness appeared. Over this time these ideas have slowly evolved into our modern understanding of dyslexia. Even though our modern understanding of dyslexia is still somewhat incomplete and vague, it has...

This paper summarizes the history of dyslexia to understand how the perceptions of dyslexia have evolved over time. This writing will also examine how social, economic and political influences have impacted students with dyslexia throughout decades of educational history. Timetoast timeline of the history of...

A review by academics at UCL and Goldsmith stated that one in five students, or15-20% of the population, has a language based learning disability, dyslexia is the most common of the language based learning disabilities. Meanwhile in the Philippines in the year 2012, the department...

This topic interests me because I am familiar with people who suffer from learning disabilities. This made me want to explore in detail, the learning disability called dyslexia. I have a younger sibling who has not yet been definitively diagnosed with a learning disability however,...

Dyslexia is a reading and spelling disorder and it is characterised by difficulty in learning how to read and spell and reduced reading speed (sometimes sufferers need two or three times more time than other people to read a specific script), which leads to having...

The conception of learning disabilities has been around since the twentieth century, individual learners with these difficulties are often unable to read, write or comprehend mathematical problems smoothly. There are several specific learning difficulties which include dyspraxia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dyslexia and other learning difficulties. For...