Developmental dyslexia is a developmental disorder of brain function that occurs throughout the life span (developmental disorders across the life span). Not infrequently the children who have mild dyslexia primarily considered or labeled as stupid, lazy, not trying hard enough, recklessly causing low self-esteem, lack of confidence and emotional disorders secondary. Though not uncommon that people with dyslexia have such high intelligence, among others, Nelson Rockefeller, Albert Einstein, Churchill, called Gifted Dyslexics.
Countries that have been developed to form associations dyslexia and "dyslexia centers" for esesmen and penaganan with dyslexia. In Indonesia difficulty reading or dyslexia in general are well known, but the type or types of dyslexia are still not known so that a given treatment program is less structured, comprehensive, and insightful results that lead to less than optimal.
What is Dyslexia (Dyslexia)?
Dyslexia comes from the Greek word "dys" meaning difficulty "lexis" meaning of words. Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that the primary issues related to written language such as reading, writing, spelling, and in some cases difficulty with numbers, because of the complex neurological disorder, abnormalities of brain structure and function. Can also be a congenital abnormality (constitutional in origin), offspring (genetic). If one identical twin suffered from dyslexia, then 85 to 100% chance the other twin boy having dyslexia, approximately 25-50% of children may have dyslexia as well.
Dyslexia is also called specific learning difficulties, said to be specific because of the difficulties in studying a particular problem, not a general slow learning difficulties in the whole spectrum of learning. Specific symptoms include difficulty in reading, spelling, and written language. Other accompanying symptoms may be difficult to calculate (diskalkuli), write numbers (national skills / music), coordination / motor skills (dispraksi). But the main thing is the child must master the written language even though the speech language may also be disrupted. Children who have difficulty reading will have difficulty in living in their environment, especially in schools that learning to use the book.
There are some remedial for dyslexia. Remediation program with more emphasis on the strength of the child's ability, whether, on the ability of visual perception or perception audiotoris. In children with the ability ausitoris strong and weak in visual capabilities given phonetic program. In children with strong visual skills and weak in auditory Traffic trained visual reading with whole-word technique. The success handler dyslexia depend on accurate diagnosis and provision of appropriate remediation program.