Why's Testing For Dyslexia So Crucial? And What More Will You Know Once You Have Taken A Dyslexic Test?
Dyslexia can be described as a condition that affects one's capability to manipulate symbols and sounds. It typically shows up as difficulties in reading, going forwards and backwards from letters to words and sounds, to meaning. As people do every time they read aloud, as an example.
A dyslexic person's eyes see things the same as a non-dyslexic's eyes. However with the dyslexic, the brain interprets the signals received in different ways. One doesn't "catch" dyslexia, you are born with it. Roughly 1 out of every 10 has some type of dyslexia, to some degree. Getting a test for dyslexia is the best way to discover for sure whether or not a person is dyslexic.
A dyslexic person can learn how to do practically anything the non-dyslexics do, but dyslexics learn differently. They have to be taught in the manner in which they can learn. In any other case, they could never "get it" by themselves, then get overwhelmed and give up, thereby shutting out a complete sector of learning and possibilities for themselves.
Currently, school-age children are routinely screened for dyslexia, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, it has only been within the last 15 or so years that screening and testing for dyslexia has become the rule, not the exception.
Almost all adults who graduated from elementary school over fifteen years ago haven't been tested. This means that there are around 2 million dyslexic adults in the USA alone.
What makes them difficult to find and help was the way the educational system treated them as children. They were not understood. They got branded as dull, lazy, underachievers and mental defectives (which the majority were definitely not!) They were hurt and humiliated by their differences. As defense mechanisms to shield themselves, they learned to hide most of these differences.
Today you'll find them as people employed in jobs way below what their intelligence would indicate they were capable of. This so that they can avoid paperwork, having to read anything for their work. A simple dyslexic test may well set them on the road to overcoming dyslexia and opening up an entire new world of prospects...
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