Recently a Hindi film named Taare Zameen Par drew a lot of recognition steady at the International steady where it has been nominated for the Oscar Award. The film is based on a child who is "differently abled" and has Dyslexia. The conduct specimen of the child was not properly understood steady by his parents. The sufferings of this child are being shared by many a children in our society. Due to unawareness and indifference of land such children are put into the classification of Disabled and branded as Retarded children. Whereas this film has been an eye opener for such cases.
It is heartening to know that world's greatest scientists relish Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison were too Dyslexic. Had these personalities been too considered Disabled, the Scientific world would have been much Poorer today without the contributions of these good scientists.
Dyslexia or word blindness may be discovered when a child learns to read. It is a disorder due to a blemish in the child's perception. He is unable to kindhearted out the command of words within a sentence, or the letters within a word. Dyslexic kids have temperament understanding. They can be taught how to read if given special teaching.
Dyslexia, means "mishap with words" . So removed-off it has been a problem which was not being understood properly. Very often it used to be mistaken for mental retardation, now dyslexia is no longer an extrinsic word in India where between 5 to 12 per cent of progression going kids are believed to be dyslexic. And as the problem gains recognition, a remedial approach is also sought for.
Dyslexia-difficult to pronounce and equable tougher to detect, these children are simply unable to combine their cognitive process to their physical environment. Associating the words with the pictures, reading and writing is the vital problem which children or dyslexics have. As their perceptual ability is breakable. Numbers written on the board do not basis all to them. Frequently, the problem is one of mirror-image for ideal, the alphabet "b" appears as "d" or if inverted image where the letter "p" is mistaken for "b".
At the same time the memory of the dyslexics tends to be exceptionally good, in fact many children substitute memory for reading. They query their parents or somebody to read stories aloud to them, and memorize the text or the contents. Interestingly cognizant of their coexistence of intellect and inability, they invariably usage their reason.
While the exact opening of dyslexia is not yet known, scientists believe the misconnection between the left and privilege halves of the mind is one intelligence for it. While dyslexia could be inherited, poor schooling and health are aggravating factors , not the causative factors.
The initial signs of dyslexia can be detected between the epoch of 6 and 8 years, when the child does not solution to reading and writing, despite being taught adequately. These children (dyslexics) do show ordinary traits, as the grip on their pen or pencil is ungainly, their handwriting is perverse, or they goof on simple arithmetic problems as hale.
Though the style of these factors does not always signify dyslexia, dyslexic kids are known to have these problems.
Other Signs of Dyslexia :
- The child appears brighter than his reading or writing recommend.
- He makes up stories based on illustrations unrelated to written text.
- He is late in learning how to read time or tie his shoelaces.
- He confuses between left and surrender.
- He can't recall things that are sequential e.g. order of days,months and numbers etc.
- He makes anagrams as exhaust for tried or united for nuited.
- He reads aloud to himself.
- He is generally left-hander.
- He puts stress on the injury syllables while reading, not while talking..
- He reads backward e.g. on for no, or saw for was.
- He ignores punctuation marks.
- He puts syllables in the incorrect command e.g. buts-intention for bus-goal.
- He shortens the words e.g. rember for recall.
- He makes quality spelling mistakes love chidl for child, evil for dab, n as u, and m as w.
- He spells words as the telling e.g. busy to bizy and might to mite.
- He omits letters e.g. remedy spelt as rain.
- His walking is not coordinated.
- He is evil at copying from the board.
How to restitution dyslexia?
Cognitive manage therapy is developed by Harvard Medical School. Now it is being accepted by and large. Recognizing that dyslexics have problem with their auditory and visual senses and language expression, the Cognitive Control Therapy focuses upon dyslexic's tactile senses. Under this children are taught addition, for specimen, not through numbers, but through visual aids. For model : 4+5 is taught by placing four blue balls and five blue balls next to each other. More staid cases are made to feel the control of the letters of the alphabet so that they can identify their curves or turns. For writing, the normal ruled exercise books are not recommended. In the classroom, dyslexics requisite to be spoken to softly. For them, the writing upon the board should be very confident, and allowances made; more time to complete work, no red marks upon their books, and less homework.
If dyslexia is identified at an early term, dyslexics can avoid the humiliation of being branded as delay or passive, and habit their exceptional skills productively.
They require awareness, pity and Homoeopathy.
Treatment :
XEROPHYLLUM : Dull , cannot concentrate intelligence for study.
Forgets names.
Writes bear letters of words first
eg. WAS to SAW
Miss-spells stereotyped words
eg. October to Optober.
Case.
Mr. T.S (12 Yrs) and Miss D.K (10Yrs) both brother and sister were problem for their parents and teachers. As they were not behaving in the succession and at house as any other temperament child. Parents were getting desperate as all now and then they were called at series for non performance of the children. They had been changing Schools after schools in the last 7-8 years but with no accomplish. It was by sheer occaoccasion that their father Mr. S.S, who came to my clinic for his BP problem, was waiting for his rotate and was going through my book ,"THE PROBLEM CHILD AND HOMOEOPATHY". While flipping the pages, the image in the book upon the chapter of Dyslexia caught his attention and he read the whole chapter. After reading it, he realized that his children were facing the thesame problem as mentioned in the book which had not been understood uptill now and he regretted the course they were treated by everyone. Because of this unawareness of the parents and the series authorities, the children were humiliated. Then he explained the whole specimen of his children in detail to me. Both the kids were brought to my clinic and proper specimen history was taken. Accordingly they were treated with constitutional homoeopathic remedies and counseling of both the children and the parents was done. After 3 years of treatment, both the children found a new lease of life with homoeopathy and they could rival with other children of their term group.