Learning To Read Is Harder For Visual Learners
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It is something that every teacher will have seen.
There are many children who struggle with reading, while being evidently bright and hard working.
Stranger still, everything seems OK at first. But then they start to fall behind and eventually hit a plateau at around the age of 6 or 7. As the text gets more complicated they start to guess wildly and they become steadily more confused.
And then their confidence collapses under the pressure. They can feel everyone's concern and don't know what to do to fix the problem.
Sometimes this leads to a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is quite wrong.
Dyslexia suggests there is some underlying problem that cannot be overcome.
But trying to read the wrong way is not dyslexia. And that is what is happening.
Here is what's really happening.
A child will always approach a problem in what seems the easiest way. To a visual child, memorising the alphabet and simple words seems easy. People praise their achievement. So they think that they are reading. And early reader books encourage this with a very limited vocabulary.
So everyone thinks it is going fine.
But this technique gets more and more difficult as the text gets more complex. Children with a good natural ear for the phonic structure in words will now switch to decoding the words instead.
The rest stay with their natural visual approach, unless carefully guided away from it. They just cannot hear the phonic structure of the words without the right help.
And these are the children that get stuck.
They will use the context to guess wildly, taking the first letter of the word as a guide.
They are baffled by their predicament and have no idea why it has gone wrong. They can feel people's frustration, but have actually been working hard.
Of the one in five children who reach the age of 11 unable to read properly, around 80% are in this group. It virtually destroys their chances of a good academic career and severely limits their working options.
And that is a tragedy for each of them because they are just trying to read the wrong way. We routinely see them successfully crack it in just a matter of weeks.
The label dyslexic carries a great risk that everyone will just relax into acceptance of the situation as inevitable. That leaves the child to deal with a much harder path through life.
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