Early Dyslexia Testing and Screening

The history of dyslexia has been one of long struggle in the darkness of ignorance, culminating in tremendous amounts of progress in the most recent 25 years.

Dyslexics learn differently. Their eyes see objects the same way but their brains appear to interpret the signals from the eyes differently than those of non-dyslexics. It’s not all bad, many famous and successful people have been dyslexic. But to reach their total potential they need to be taught differently, according to their needs.

In roughly the last fifteen years, dyslexia testing has been an integral part of the educational process. Children in elementary schools have routinely been screened for dyslexia. As part of their standard procedures, everyone went through preliminary screening. Those identified as possibly dyslexic, were put through full scale testing for dyslexia which identified whether or not they were dyslexic, and, if so, what type and to what degree was the problem.

Before about 15 years ago, dyslexics were lumped in with the rest of the students and had to take their chances. Most were treated badly by the educational system, called lazy, slow learners, underachievers. They were made to feel ashamed of and embarrassed by their differences and learned to conceal them.

Millions of adult dyslexics today have never taken a dyslexia test. They still struggle with learning and reading difficulties that could be easily overcome if they were only known. A half-hour dyslexia test could make enormous improvements in their self-esteem and abilities.

There are a large number of different types of dyslexia to deal with. There is no standard definition, no real, workable way to sort them out into types and put them into nice, neat categories. Each one is different and needs to be evaluated and taught accordingly.

Dyslexia testing is not difficult or expensive; there’s even an online dyslexia test that takes half an hour, can be done from home or wherever you can connect to the Internet and costs less than $60! If you or anyone you know might possibly be dyslexic, it’s really easy to find out for sure!

There is more information on the subject of dyslexia you can see by clicking on any of the links in this blog posting.

Disclaimer: Nothing in the above explanations is intended to be or represented to be or should be construed to be any form of medical advice. The information herein has been gleaned from medical journals, news articles in the popular press and other freely-available public sources. It is presented here for informational purposes only. For any medical advice the reader is urged to consult with his or her licensed physician or other medical specialist.

Author Hans Oberstein

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