Confusing Directions And while all adults mix up their left and right, if this is a consistent issue for you, it could be a sign of undiagnosed dyslexia. Dyslexia can cause issues with spatial reasoning. People dealing with dyslexia can have issues reading maps, following directions, and confuse their left and right.
Dyslexic people can struggle with direction: they may often get lost or feel nervous about going to unfamiliar places. They may also find 'left' or 'right' instructions difficult to follow, or give.
Ordinary readers use left-brain systems, but dyslexic readers rely more on right brain areas.
Confusing similar looking letters and words
Common mistakes when reading and spelling are mixing up b's and d's, or similar looking words such as 'was' and 'saw', 'how' and 'who'. Letters and numbers can be written back-to-front or upside down. The most common numbers for visual dyslexics to reverse are 9, 5 and 7.
If your child is reversing words/letters/ or numbers, it could be a vision problem. Or it could be dyslexia. Or it could be both. In cases where a child has been diagnosed with dyslexia, we strongly recommend a functional vision test.
They think in a different way. The majority of people think mainly with their brain's left hemisphere, whereas dyslexics think predominantly with their right hemisphere. This leads to a different kind of thinking and learning style that we call conceptual thinking.
Often forget conversations or important dates. Have difficulty with personal organisation, time management and prioritising tasks. Avoid certain types of work or study. Find some tasks really easy but unexpectedly challenged by others.
People with dyslexia possess many strengths thanks to the unique ways in which their brains process stimuli, including language. Many individuals with dyslexia are right-brain dominant. The right and left hemispheres of the brain are organized in a slightly different way.
The 4 types of dyslexia include phonological dyslexia, surface dyslexia, rapid naming deficit, and double deficit dyslexia. Dyslexia is a learning disorder where the person often has difficulty reading and interpreting what they read.
Mixing up left and right is surprisingly common. One study found that up to a third of people have problems with it sometimes. It can be associated with dyslexia and dyspraxia, as well as difficulty telling the time.
People often confuse dyslexia and autism for one another or conflate them for their similarities. But they are two completely different disorders that affect the brains of people in different ways. While dyslexia is a learning difficulty, autism is a developmental disorder.
In addition to the main types of dyslexia based on cause, researchers and educators often refer to subcategories of dyslexia based on how they are experienced: phonological, surface, rapid naming, double deficit, visual, and deep. Each of these subcategories is associated with a specific cluster of dyslexia symptoms.
In fact, despite reading ability, people who have dyslexia can have a range of intellectual ability. Most have average to above average IQs, and just like the general population, some have superior to very superior scores.
Nonetheless, as discussed above, being dyslexic may make an individual more sensitive and prone to anxious thoughts in certain situations. Personality traits and psychological profiles too play a key role in anxiety levels.
Dyslexic strengths include:
High levels of empathy. Excellent big-picture thinkers. Good at making connections. Strong narrative reasoning.
problems learning the names and sounds of letters. spelling that's unpredictable and inconsistent. confusion over letters that look similar and putting letters the wrong way round (such as writing "b" instead of "d") confusing the order of letters in words.
A child might reverse letters because of a poor memory for how to form letters. Another possible cause is trouble challenges with visual processing. In this case, a child might have trouble identifying how images are different (visual discrimination) or which direction they face (visual directionality).
In fact, dyslexia affects as many as 20% of U.S. adults, but most don't know they have it. That may be in part because dyslexia doesn't always present as the expected problems with reading and spelling. Recognizing dyslexia is the first step in learning to live better with it — but it can sometimes be the hardest step.
Phonological Dyslexia
It deals with difficulties in matching sounds to symbols and breaking down the sounds of language. Individuals with phonological dyslexia struggle to decode or sound out words. It's believed that phonological dyslexia is the most common type of dyslexia.
They may be inconsistent when it comes to spelling, writing a word correctly one day and incorrectly the next, and can take longer to stop reversing letters in early writing. When the dyslexia is mild, individuals can often “get by” at school and may go on to have ordinary careers.