Diagnosing Dyslexia

The Importance of Detecting Dyslexia Early By: Ceressa H. Gesta I checked online famous personalities with dyslexia and to my surprise there were several names indicated. Tom Cruise is one of them and I imagine how difficult it would be for him to read his acting lines considering his dyslexic condition. I totally agree how significant it is to diagnose early dyslexia. This way, parents will understand their children’s condition and instead of wallowing in shame they would instead seek support from special education teachers and SPED schools. But not all parents have the abilities and knowledge to diagnose dyslexia and what if Parents will just ignore early signs and symptoms of dyslexia because they misconstrued it as part of developmental delays.
Students will continue to suffer and struggle from their condition. While parents and teachers struggle to find rationalization of the condition will fail to provide appropriate learning support because of misdiagnosis or failed to diagnose. Knowledge and ability to diagnose dyslexia is as valuable as diagnosing the condition early. Aside from SPED teachers, Parents and regular teachers must also learn how to diagnose dyslexia. Schools must include in its services activities educating and informing parents and regular teachers on how to diagnose dyslexia and suitable learning activities to help student with this condition. Learning how to diagnose is not enough, school must also include in its curricular directives opportunity to diagnose dyslexia. So that regular teacher will take the effort to diagnose their students. And if student is diagnosed with the condition they will refer the student for special education