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Can dyslexia be cured?

April 26, 2017cured dyslexia

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Can dyslexia be cured?

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Each dyslexic person’s difficulties are different and vary from slight to very severe disruption of the learning process. There is no total cure but the effects of dyslexia can be alleviated by skilled specialist teaching and committed learning. On the positive side there is a hypothesis that the neurological anomalies also give some dyslexic people visual, spatial and lateral thinking abilities that enable them to be successful in a wide range of careers.

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David K Posted

Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that makes your brain process information in less-than-optimal way and interfere with language development, specifically reading, writing and spelling.

As such, dyslexia cannot be "cured".

The above being said, the brain is not static and there is a degree to which you can ameliorate the effects of dyslexia in a number of ways.

The most fundamental changes are happening in the brain when its ability to change – neuroplasticity – is maximal.

Wiki page below has a list of sites that provide alternative therapies for learning disabilities.

Alternative therapies for developmental and learning disabilities

This is good article debunking dyslexia myths based on National Institutes of Health research:

Another approach to dyslexia is not management, to work around the challenges,

but utilizing the unique way dyslexics process information:

it is called Davis Program by Ron David,

who wrote famous "The Gift of Dyslexia"

– book that simmarizes the principles of re-shaping the dyslexic perception to enable seamless processing of language information.

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Each dyslexic person’s difficulties are different and vary from slight to very severe disruption of the learning process. There is no total cure, but the effects of dyslexia can be alleviated by skilled specialist teaching of phonics, sequencing and techniques to raise the person’s self-esteem. The neurological differences also give some dyslexic people visual, spatial, physical co-ordination and lateral thinking abilities that enable them to be successful in a wide range of careers. One famous architect’s practice gives preference to employing people who are dyslexic because of their spatial awareness and lateral thinking abilities.

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No there is no cure for dyslexia. But dyslexia is not a disease, so to talk about curing it is taking the wrong approach. Instead we should look at ways dyslexics can compensate for their dyslexia, develop coping and management strategies, and emphasising the good aspects of their dyslexia.