Reading & Writing Ability

The Main Characteristics of Reading and Writing Difficulties

What Is Dyslexia?

10%–20% of people have language-learning difficulties, and 80% of people with language-learning difficulties have reading difficulties. Reading difficulty disorders fall into two types:

• Acquired dyslexia — reading difficulty caused by brain injury.
• Developmental dyslexia — there is no obvious neurological or organic damage and intelligence is normal, but reading ability lags behind that of peers or of people of similar intelligence. Care must be taken to distinguish it from reading disorders caused by low intelligence.

The Main Signs

Not everyone with an attention disorder has reading and writing difficulties. People with reading and writing difficulties mainly show the behaviors listed in the checklist above.

How to Improve Reading and Writing Ability

KingBrains improves children’s reading difficulties by directly training the regions of the brain responsible for reading. For both situations that cause reading difficulty — acquired dyslexia and developmental dyslexia — we have corresponding training programs. At present, EEG-biofeedback training is one of the most effective methods in the world for addressing dyslexia.

The EEG-biofeedback training method, combined with reading-project training, directly trains the brain’s reading regions, addressing acquired dyslexia, developmental dyslexia, problems of brain lateral balance, and problems of neural coordination timing.

Reading, Writing, and Math Ability Assessment

Reading is an extremely complex process, because reading involves nearly all psychological functions. Some people compare reading to playing the piano, meaning that reading requires the coordination of many psychological functions, just as playing the piano requires all kinds of mental functions working together. The reading process is not merely the joining of sound, form, and meaning; it also involves combining, understanding, and producing text. Reading disorders and dyslexia are not problems of eyesight or hearing but of brain development, and they are very hard to improve through writing and reading practice alone.

Dyslexia is the most common specific learning difficulty, referring broadly to impairments in reading, writing, or spelling. Reading and writing problems generally surface in the early primary-school years. Many children with dyslexia are mistaken for being lazy and inattentive. In fact, if children with dyslexia can be identified early and receive appropriate support, their later learning difficulties can be reduced.

As for early intervention in mathematics learning disability: as long as the teaching approach is right, every child of normal intelligence can learn to communicate using mathematics, and mathematics learning disability is therefore curable. The earlier children with mathematics learning disability are discovered, the earlier an intervention plan can be drawn up; and if children at high risk of mathematics learning disability can be identified early enough, we can prevent mathematics learning disability from ever truly developing.

A self-assessment: rate each of the following items Never, Occasionally, Often, or Always, across three scales:

Reading Assessment (DYSLEXIA – Reading)

1. Loses their place while reading
2. Feels tense and uneasy when reading
3. Uses a finger to point at the characters while reading
4. Dislikes or avoids reading
5. Tilts their head or the book while reading
6. Reads aloud too loudly or too quietly
7. Cannot distinguish tones when reading; pronunciation is unclear
8. Adds or repeats certain words while reading
9. Leaves out certain words while reading
10. Frequently self-corrects while reading
11. After reading silently, often fails to understand the nature and meaning of the passage
12. After reading, often cannot find the answers to questions about the material and answers beside the point
13. Performs very poorly in English or Chinese (or both)
14. Reads more slowly than most people
15. Forgets much of what was read after finishing an article

Writing Assessment (DYSLEXIA – Writing)

1. Knows fewer characters than peers; learns them more slowly and with more difficulty
2. Written answers tend to be too brief and cannot be developed
3. Avoids writing
4. Repeatedly makes the same writing mistakes, which are hard to correct
5. Handwriting is untidy
6. Reverses letters left-to-right when writing alphabetic script
7. Adds meaningless words when writing
8. Leaves out certain words when writing
9. Pauses at certain characters; makes repeated mistakes on certain words
10. When copying, needs to look at each stroke before writing it, taking a long time
11. Characters are poorly sized, written into the margin or outside the lines

Mathematics Learning Disability (MLD) Assessment

1. Writes the + and − signs incorrectly when doing arithmetic
2. Often gets lost partway through complex calculations
3. Sometimes gets wildly wrong results on math problems
4. Insensitive to numbers and symbols; finds it hard to calculate as quickly as peers
5. Still tries to count on their fingers when doing arithmetic

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