Recognize Signs of Dyslexia in Adults

Contents:

• Medical Video: What are the Symptoms of Dyslexia?
  
• There are many types of dyslexia in adults
  
• Signs of dyslexia in adults
  
• 1. General sign:
  
• 2. The ability to read, write and talk:
  
• 3. Mathematical ability, time and direction management:
  
• 4. In terms of career:
  
• How can this be recognized?
  
• Overcoming dyslexia in adults
  

Medical Video: What are the Symptoms of Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a learning disorder and processing information that affects a person's ability to read, write, spell, or even speak fluently. Dyslexia is more common in school children starting at a very young age, but does not rule out the possibility of dyslexia in adults.

Even so, adults who are dyslexic are not merely means that they were first hit when they were old. Because this learning disorder is developing since childhood. The appearance of dyslexia in adults is most likely caused by dyslexic symptoms that are not too obvious when children are so undiagnosed.

There are many types of dyslexia in adults

Here are some types of dyslexia that can be experienced by children early and settled into adulthood:

• Disnemkinesia - dyslexia which is characterized by impaired motor skills so they find it difficult to recognize how a letter is written and cause letters written in an odd or inverted shape.
• Disponesia - dyslexia which is characterized by hearing disorders (auditory ability) and causes children to have difficulty pronouncing sentences or understanding unfamiliar languages.
• Diseidesia - is a disorder of visual ability so it is difficult to understand writing and recognize how the writing is read. For example, the word "one" is written "one"In English but read"wan“.

Someone who has dyslexia can have only one of the characteristics above or all three at a time, and the severity can vary from person to person.

Signs of dyslexia in adults

Quoted from the dyslexia.com page, here are some signs of dyslexia in adults after being divided into four categories:

1. General sign:

• Emotions that are more sensitive (irritable, easily irritated or frustrated, easily stressed and overwhelmed in certain situations).
• It's hard to voice thoughts. There is often a pause when talking, speaking in intermittent phrases, or speaking incomplete sentences. This may worsen when it is triggered by stress or a disturbance in the middle of a conversation (for example, a friend cuts off the conversation).
• Likes suddenly stunned but didn't realize it.
• Easily disturbed by noise in the surrounding environment.
• Less understanding what is happening around them.
• Likes to slip, in the case of using and saying the word without realizing it.
• Difficulty understanding and remembering conversations or events that have passed.
• Difficulty remembering people's names, but memorizing faces.
• Difficulty understanding directions and verbal stages to do things.
• Feel panic and worry when you have to read stories or help your child do homework.
• Feeling worried and feeling guilty when their child has the same problem

2. The ability to read, write and talk:

• Difficult to read writing with type letters (fonts) that are not common.
• Lack of reading because you can feel tired quickly; need to read text twice or more.
• Avoid reading aloud; may not like to speak in public.
• Use the same or similar sound pattern to remember words, but often use them incorrectly.
• Not sure about the use of words, terms, punctuation and grammar when writing; The words used are often out of context and misused.
• Have bad or inconsistent spelling (difficult to spell).
• Fluency and reading comprehension depend on the topic of writing.
• Like asking someone else for help when they have to write something.
• Bad handwriting; generally write with all capital letters and often abbreviate words.

3. Mathematical ability, time and direction management:

• Can and even understand mathematical calculations are complicated, but can not write down the formula or calculation process on paper.
• Maybe still rely on tricks to remember a mathematical formula. Sometimes more rely on calculators or finger counting.
• Difficulty distinguishing left and right.
• Cannot read maps and wind direction.
• Easily stray, or never forget which places have been visited.
• Always anxious when you have to go to a foreign area or a new place; Rely on other people to drive whenever possible.
• Often forget time and late; or vice versa, it is always on time.
• Difficulty in estimating how long it will take to complete a task.

4. In terms of career:

• Choosing a job that does not need a lot of talking and writing.
• Avoiding work that is sustainable or has many stages or long and sequential procedures.
• Difficulty in focusing and concentrating on the work; find it easier to multitasking.
• It's easier to learn by trying directly, demonstrations, experiments, observations with visual assistance.
• Growing rapidly in the field of work that requires spatial and kinesthetic abilities. For example athletes, mechanical workers (carpentry, pipes, electricity), businessmen and craftsmen, actors and musicians, police.
• Very successful or inclined over-achiever or considered "not working according to its potential". However, it displays an extreme work ethic.
• Maybe perfectionist and overreact when making mistakes.

How can this be recognized?

The diagnosis of dyslexia in adults is generally done directly by a psychologist through face-to-face tests, but without physical and medical examinations.

Some of the tests needed to formalize the diagnosis and how severe dyslexia is generally are:

• Test of ability to see.
• Hearing ability test.
• Reading ability test.
• Psychiatric test.
• Assessment regarding lifestyle and how to work.

Overcoming dyslexia in adults

After diagnosis and assessment of severity, there are several ways that can be done to overcome learning disorders, such as:

• Occupational therapy to teach the ability to work and overcome disorders due to dyslexia
• Practice reading skills.
• Carry out orders or instructions with direct verbal instructions or via voicemail.
• Sharpen the ability to learn words and remember.
• Practicing work that is considered difficult to do ...

Recording instructions or information that needs to be remembered through a recording device will make it easier for dyslexic adults to understand information compared to written information.

In addition there are programs or applications that make it easy to read like applications that work inside speech-to-text or read text and produce sound.