I’m sorry, but are the people that wrote the article stupid or something???? Dyslexia is an umbrella term that just means someone with language issues. Nobody has it the same. My daughter has it and some of the issues are auditory processing disorder, visual processing disorder, etc. Now what in the heck does that have to do with sight words???
Maybe there is a group of people that have issues with reading because of sight words, but you can’t use a broad brush when talking about this disorder. It is disrespectful to those that have serious learning issues.
Maybe there is a group of people that have issues with reading because of sight words, but you can’t use a broad brush when talking about this disorder. It is disrespectful to those that have serious learning issues.
You are absolutely 100% correct. Like pneumonia, dyslexia is a umbrella symptom, not a disease in itself. Dyslexia is a language/auditory/visual processing disorder that has varying degrees and facets. I knew that my child had a severe processing problem long before a government school teacher tried to teach him to sight read and long before I had even heard the word "dyslexia." While dyslexia may very well be over-diagnosed, it is not a fake disease invented by the public school system as an excuse to hire school psychologists and special ed teachers. Indeed, in my experience, the government school systems are in denial over dyslexia notwithstanding the evidence that dyslexia is a biologically based processing disorder that tends to run in families.