Specific developmental disorders

Dyslexia

    In children with dyslexia is a great difficulty to distinguish the letters or letter groups, and their order and rhythm within a word and / or phrase.

    Show great difficulty for successful learning to read, presenting a reading level significantly lower than expected for age and school year.

    Dyslexia affects the rest of learning. Every dyslexic child's behavior is affected by the problem of communication. Perform any task, it is a "waste of energy." Moves with insecurity, difficult to get a pencil placed in front of a blank ...

    Basically, the reasons revolve around:

    - Poor lateralization

    - Time-space disorientation

    - Problems of perception

    - Changes in psychomotor (physical appearance, balance ,...)

    - Affective disorders

    and should NOT be, no visual impairment, hearing or neurological.

    The lateralization bad it harder to deploy and guide the letters correctly, this will cause the realization of investments, omissions, ... confusion of those who prevent him from achieving the desired reading level.
    The chosen method for learning to read affects the incidence of this disorder. Ideally, the more complete and use a mixed approach. Methods are not good or bad, any method is good if properly applied.

    Generally is associated with dysgraphia.

    It is very important to detect the disorder early (between kindergarten and the first two years of the initial level) and carry through a child psychologist, enhancing the learning individually. The most important thing is to establish the cause to intervene in the most appropriate and rapid so as not to complicate the problem with the following school learning.

    Dysgraphia

    Is a specific disorder of writing: the child has a significantly lower level of writing expected by age and school year, and this negatively affects their school learning

    The most common problems that are often even observe are:

    - Investment of syllables

    - Omission of letters

    - Write letters in mirror

    - Continued writing or incorrect separations

    Is closely related to reading.

    All this, he is an overuse of care and very few successes.

    The treatment would be to find the cause as soon as possible, and make specific and individual attention on each case in question, a specialist in child psychology. It should intervene as soon as possible not to increase the rpoblema with the following learning.


    Dyscalculia

    Is a specific disorder of arithmetic.

    Often appear associated with dyslexia, dysgraphia and attention disorders.

    The most common problems that are usually observed are:

    - Confuse the numbers

    - Invest

    - Write numbers in mirror

    - And the problems arising from this.

    Treatment is focused on finding the cause, and promptly implemented individual attention and specific arithmetic concepts, by a child psychologist. It should intervene as soon as possible not to increase the problem with the following learning.


    Psychomotor retardation

    A delay in any of the psychomotor areas may adversely affect the outcome of school learning. It will require a deep exploration of each aspect to know on what points work.

    On the basis of all learning is the psychomotor, deficiencies or alterations in this undoubtedly influence. The earlier the detection and before work can proceed on it, the better the results.