We all know how important a role home environment, access to reading material and socio-economic factors play in the process of literacy development. There are, however, some people who find this a complex activity and something difficult to comprehend.
What is Dyslexia
When certain key areas of the brain have diminished ability to interpret a repeated input, the confusion caused as a result of this is called dyslexia. This trait is also known as neural adaptation.
Though this disorder can take many different forms, people with dyslexia generally struggle with reading comprehension and issues linked to processing language.
To put it simply, dyslexia is a learning difficulty that impairs the ability of a person to read and write. They may also have trouble understanding what they have read.
Dyslexia is basically a neurological issue, which is usually genetically linked and not a result of poor upbringing or teaching. In certain cases of acquired dyslexia trauma, brain injury due to an accident could also be the cause.
Adults with this condition probably have been suffering from dyslexia their whole lives. However, it affects each person differently, and most people find a way to accommodate and improve their learning abilities and thrive.
Overcoming Dyslexia
There are several Dyslexia programs in place which systematically train the brain of the person to show new pathways to accommodate all the necessary visual and auditory information with regard to reading.
Meditation has also shown a way to help affected people to run a better life by teaching certain skills needed to overcome.
Though meditation may not fix the reading problem directly, it will speed up the process dramatically through specific training.
Neuroplasticity Research on Dyslexia
The human brain has the ability to adapt and create new neural pathways throughout its life.
This capacity to constantly form new connections is also referred to as brain plasticity, a development that has shed new ideas on research.
Studies on brain imaging have shown that the brain of people with dyslexia function differently than the brain activity of those who are good readers.
The areas of the brain that deal with processing individual sounds are less developed in people with dyslexia.
Traditionally, dyslexia is seen as an incurable brain-based condition, and a challenge a person has to endure life-long.
Which literally means that there is something wrong with the brain that cannot be made right.
Studies have shown that with the right practice and training, brain plasticity can help activate certain areas of the brain to improve the ability of people with dyslexia to read single words, remove the confusion between sounds and letters and be able to map letters into words.
The term used to study the functioning of the brain through brain scans is described as neuroplasticity, which says that the brain can actually be retrained to change its way of functioning.
After all, we are not born with reading skills, but make our brain function differently in order to grasp the art of reading.
