Auditory Processing Disorder contributes to Dyslexia

I have been reading about dyslexia and many thoughts have come up to why this is a reading disability. If we have an education system that just feed the masses what are we doing to these children that has reading problems but yet has strength to think differently? I am sure not all children are on the non-dyslexia verses dyslexia.

I came across the book by Ronald Davis titled The Gift of Dyslexia. Most people say it isn’t a gift and most people would rather not read to keep it. This book gave me great insight of what dyslexia is from the author first hand account of his own dyslexia. And his proven method to solve the problem of dyslexia in having the person who has it controls it by turning it on and off at will. Doesn’t it sound science fiction; I was thinking along something like X-Men or any superheroes that has special powers? For a Dyslexic it is the power of projecting imagery, as it is reality in the head, which somehow cause interferences with ability to read.

The brain of a dyslexic thinks in images. If a word needs to represent a concept that cannot be conjured to an images that is what messes everything up. The word apple when you think in a picture form you likely to get a fruit that is red with a brown stem or it could be green, but either way you get a picture. But when it comes to “problem words” that Davis mentioned for example the word “the” doesn’t bring up any images association because in English language the word “the” is classified as an article to be placed in front of a noun to specify it. It is even possible to think of a picture of “the” other than just the letterforms. That is why the word “the” to a picture thinker doesn’t mean anything.

Another thing that I find very specific is how central auditory processing disorder is the main contributing factor of dyslexia. Since phonological awareness and differentiation is already difficult and the child have to compensate something for example to use more visual cues then of course it makes sense that dyslexia would occur.

The best part to help a child is to catch it early with any signs and symptoms and I say not to wait to the recommended age of 7 or 8. My son is now age 6 and he is already behind in speech and also some gross/fine motor skills that need to be trained up. Just comparing my youngest now age 4.5, she is able to name all alphabets and tell me the words that begin with each letters. I wished I could have drawn the connection and look into a solution sooner. But it isn’t too late.