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Dyslexia can be a very prob­lematic con­dition that par­tic­ularly affects a person’s daily living activities. However, it is not one of those well known con­ditions like cancer, AIDS, and the likes. To understand how dyslexia affects people, spe­cifically adults, you must first understand what dyslexia is, its causes, severity, and prevalence.

What Is Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is basically a con­dition that presents a person’s dif­ficulty in pro­cessing information that is usually related to short-​​term memory defi­ciency and visual coordination. If you have this con­dition, your short-​​term memory would be par­tic­ularly weak. It can be either your auditory or visual memory that is affected or both. Due to this, being a dyslexic person, it would be dif­ficult for you to learn the con­nection between the spoken sound and the written symbol.

It is mainly cat­egorized to be as a learning dis­ability, since it mainly affects the vital areas in which learning is related to. Since auditory and visual skills are needed in learning, dyslexia can make one disabled in this field.

How Severe Can One Be?

The severity and range of the con­dition can vary widely for dyslexic people. The main problem areas of dif­ficulty would be reading, spelling, numeration, writing, time-​​keeping and personal organ­ization. The degree of the effect on an indi­vidual can be observed from mild spelling and reading dif­fi­culties to severe problems on organ­ization or even complete illiteracy. There are no typical cases for dyslexia, since each case can be unique from one another.

Dia­gnosis

Some people do not even know that they are dyslexic; while there are a huge number of people, who are only dia­gnosed when they have reached adulthood already. This may be due to the unpop­ularity of the con­dition. Sometimes, it can be mis­dia­gnosed too to be as a dif­ferent con­dition that may present similar symptoms.

What Are The Causes?

There is no pin­pointed cause of dyslexia, even though much research has been con­ducted to be able to explain its main cause. However, there are some researches that have gathered some relevant findings on the con­dition. Some neur­o­logical research suggests that a person who has this con­dition may have some abnor­mality on how his or her brain’s left hemi­sphere functions. This is relevant since the left hemi­sphere is the one that controls your lexical system.

Cog­nitive research, however, in the past years has mainly focused on the pos­sibility that the cause is related to having problems with phon­o­logical awareness, which is one’s awareness of specific speech sounds in words. Addi­tionally, there is a spec­u­lation that such problems are somewhat related to a specific portion of the brain.

Whatever the cause may be, there appears little doubt that a lot of people having literacy problems really do experience sound insens­itivity in dif­ferent ways. Due to this deficit, reading problems often occurs. What is also obvious is that even though the cause of the problems can be multi-​​causal and can be dif­ferent from one person to another, they can still be the main source of intense frus­tration and depression for any dyslexic person.

Incidence And Prevalence

The estimated incidences of dyslexia can vary greatly every year. It is estimated that it occurs from about to 4–10% of the pop­u­lation. It is also believed that pre­valence in males is four times greater than with females.

General Effects In Adulthood

Dyslexia is a con­dition that is quite hard to recognize. It is also one con­dition that most people who have it try to hide. Simple tasks like filling in forms, taking phone messages, or even com­pleting timesheets can already be major problems when you have this condition.

This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford –

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​01-​​25 13:25:23.