The Problems Behind a Growing Population of Dyslexia Children

isnare | 2009-09-06 23:58:05

In the influx of educational philosophy, there has been a growing concern about the development of the world?s population of children. With the seemingly great increase in educational standards and availability of instruction in this modern new world, more and more children have been diagnosed as positive with some sort of dyslexic problem. This is a disturbing trend, as the numbers which have been dwindling in the past few decades have seen a sharp increase as of late, with more and more child psychologists reporting that children as early as 3 ? 5 years old have begun to show signs of the developmental learning disorder. <br><br>This is not due to the normal evolutionary theory behind dyslexia, where the learning disability is hypothesised to be introduced when learning and instruction has been introduced late into the neurodevelopment stage of children, which causes many problems and complications. To understand the reason behind this, perhaps we need to have a look closely at the causes and theories behind dyslexia. Evidence does suggest that the main causes of this learning disability stems from how the brain processes information like spoken and written language, and how this can be neurologically impaired by certain factors ? which then develop into dyslexia. There is no intelligence cap for this disorder, even the smartest people have the potential of being affected by this disease. <br><br>One of the main causes of the disorder is hereditary, which means entire families might by cyclic carriers of the learning disability, passing it from generation to generation. While there is much interest in this area of dyslexia and its seemingly genetic focus, there is still much to be learnt. Some experts have discovered a network of cells that lie beneath the surface of the brain in dyslexic people; but in normal people, it is placed along the surface of the brain. It is believed that after they have been birthed, the cells will move from beneath the brain to the top, a normal procedure in child development. It seems that in dyslexic people, these cells do not move, these ectopic cells, found in the front and the left of the brain, areas which are important for executing things like reading and writing, <br><br>There is another place in the brain, called the mango cellular system, a visual part of the brain that helps us to rationalise moving objects, are a lot smaller in the brains of dyslexic people. However, in truth, these causes do not help us to explain the problems of why there is a growing problem of dyslexia in children. With the increased numbers, more time and effort will be spend on therapies and structured learning to help these kids out, which means a drain on the world?s intellectual resources. This almost devolution of the intellectual mind points to some alarming signals, and what we need to do is to continue the research to find out why this phenomenon is occurring at alarming levels. Before we can get to rectify the problems behind a growing population of dyslexia children, we must first know what is causing it in the first place.

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