Dyslexia
Dyslexia, an under-recognised problem in Malaysia. Teachers who are the main educators remain ignorant of the disease and its proper approach. A parent wrote into The Star today to lament on how inept our teachers are in handling children with dyslexia. There are also little facilities to help children with dyslexia with available ones being too expensive for regular folks. I quote from http://www.cikgu.net.my and its description of dyslexia:
The word dyslexia is derived from the word Greek language, and simply means difficulty with words. Dyslexia may affect a child’s speech, reading, writing, memory and concentration, and sometimes mathematics, foreign languages, music and personal organizational skills. It tends to run in families and so is believed to be of constitutional origin.
Teachers should know more about medical conditions that affects children . This is because they are the ones that have good contact with children and may be more educated to recognise abnormalities. Limiting themselves to the educational syllabus is no longer the only requirement of a teacher.
This is a great website on dyslexia and important links
Dyslexia Teacher
Dyslexia Test
Persatuan Dyslexia Wilayah Persekutuan
6, Persiaran Kuantan, Setapak,
Kuala Lumpur 53200
The word dyslexia is derived from the word Greek language, and simply means difficulty with words. Dyslexia may affect a child’s speech, reading, writing, memory and concentration, and sometimes mathematics, foreign languages, music and personal organizational skills. It tends to run in families and so is believed to be of constitutional origin.
Teachers should know more about medical conditions that affects children . This is because they are the ones that have good contact with children and may be more educated to recognise abnormalities. Limiting themselves to the educational syllabus is no longer the only requirement of a teacher.
This is a great website on dyslexia and important links
Dyslexia Teacher
Dyslexia Test
Persatuan Dyslexia Wilayah Persekutuan
6, Persiaran Kuantan, Setapak,
Kuala Lumpur 53200
2 Comments:
Hi! Dr Cheah. I agree with you that teachers should know more about dyslexia. In fact, kindergarten and standard one teachers should be trained to identify children with dyslexia so that they receive early intervention program and teachers’ support. As an educational therapist, I find that it is harder to remediate a dyslexic child after the age of ten because they may have developed emotional and behaviour problems. I would like to invite you to my blog at www.sunreadingsystem.blogspot.com Perhaps you would like to email me your comment and questions about the multisensory Orton Gillingham based reading system that I have developed for dyslexics.
Dear Dr Cheah
We have an 8 year old son whom we believe has dyslexia from all the
tips that we read in the net, so to put our worries to rest, we would
like to know where we can have the test done, professionaly and economically?
Tks
Cindy
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