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A person with dyslexia may have poor spelling, reading, and writing abilities. Some of them mix up the order of letters and words, and they put them the wrong way round. Some have trouble with directions and understanding written information. However, each individual with dyslexia has unique strengths and weaknesses.
Dyslexia has different signs and symptoms which differ from one person to another. Some of these signs are speech problems and jumbling of phrases and some are visual disturbances and memory lapses. It can be really frustrating for someone with dyslexia trying to concentrate on what's written between the lines of a particular text. I don't even want to think about how frustrating it can be for them. They are really passing through a lot, they do not suffer with dyslexia or live with it, they have it, and it lives with them.
There are supports available to help children at school and adults at work and in life, but how functional are these supports? I believe that there is nothing that can't be achieved, we just need to think outside the box if we really want to support these individuals.
I recently came across a post on Twitter where a woman (Aisha Yesufu) created a thread about her son who is suffering from dyslexia. She lamented that her son is a textbook case of dyslexia, and this troubles her so much. She was so frustrated and angry recently that she cried so much.
She cried because there are things she ought not to be doing that she still have to do for her son. But then, she realized that her son didn't ask to be born with dyslexia and that alone made her wipe her tears.
She knew her son wasn't the typical academic person and so, she focused on other interest he had. For A-levels, he did Media Studies, Photography and Arts which was his choice.
Her cousin laughed and asked why she would waste so much money on her son to do such subjects knowing he has dyslexia, she replied and told her cousin that it's her job as a mother to ensure her children achieve their dreams no matter the amount of money she spends on them.
She continued by saying that she is determined to take her son to anyone that has something her son can learn from and likewise register him for any course he can benefit from provided he is willing to learn.
As much as not everybody has the money like Aisha Yesufu to invest in his/her child, the point here is to learn how to support your children and always be in their corner. Parenting is not about spoiling your children with chocolates and all, it isn't about reprimanding them when they don't perform well in school, it's about supporting them in all areas of life.
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A child has difficulties with learning, instead of taking time to find out what's wrong, the next thing is reprimanding and raining all sorts of denigrating words you can think of on him or her. Invest time in your child and understand that children are also Human beings with their own thought processes.
Normalize having a 2-way communication system with your kids, not the one-way communication you experienced as a child. A lot of children are actually battling with learning disabilities but parents and teacher will say the child is a "DAFT", and then use physical and verbal abuse to scar that child for life.
One interesting thing to note is that children with learning disabilities are actually intelligent kids. If you get to interact with some of them, you'll find their thought processes very fascinating. People with dyslexia are not slow, daft or stupid, their brain just work differently. We just need to be creative and patient with them to open their locks.