UNDERSTANDING
DYSLEXIA
THE COGNITIVE BASIS
Speaking is part of the human condition, it is natural to humans. Whereas reading is a relatively recent invention of man and many societies still rely on speaking rather than reading. Reading is artificial and must be taught. The letters must be connected to something that already has inherent meaning- the sounds of spoken language. In order to learn to read, children must learn how to link the printed letters on the page to the sounds of spoken language. To do so, a child must first develop the awareness that spoken words can be pulled apart into their constituent parts.For about 60-70% of children, this awareness develops readily by the age of about six. Whereas 30-40% experience difficulty noticing these basic sounds called phonemes that make up all the spoken and written words
The smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one word from another is called Phonemes. They are the building block of all spoken and written words. In English, there are forty-four phonemes. People with dyslexia sometimes retrieve a phoneme that sounds similar to the one they intended. As a result they sometimes intend to say one word but ends up saying a word that sounds similar. A dyslexic knows the word they want to say but just has trouble pulling the correct sound out of their internal dictionary.
Credits to: "The Science of Reading and Dyslexia." Dyslexia. 7 Feb. 2012. Web. 1 Dec. 2015.