Jakarta. The doctor may be able to find any signs of dyslexia using brain scans in children from age 3 or 4 years before the child starts school. The signs of dyslexia in brain scans may still be known at the time of the scan is done, even if the child has not shown signs of dyslexia in behavior.

Dyslexia is a very broad term to define a learning disability that undermine accuracy in reading fluency or comprehension. The condition can manifest as difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short term memory or rapid naming.

However, dyslexia is different with reading difficulties result from other causes, such as non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from reading the instruction of poor or inadequate.

Dyslexia can be detected as early as possible, rather than waiting for the child has signs of reading difficulties. The scientists were able to identify problems in reading even before children start school, long before they are labeled as students who are stupid and started to lose confidence.

Although dyslexia is usually diagnosed during the second or third graders in elementary school or around age 7 or 8 years. However, the Children’s Hospital Boston said the signs of dyslexia in children can begin to be detected from age 4 or 5 years using a brain scan.

“We call it the paradox of dyslexia. Most children are not diagnosed until the third grade, but for a brain scan can detect an early dyslexia. It is expected that dyslexic children can be detected before they begin learning to read,” said Nadine Gaab of the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience as reported by HealthNews, Thursday (1/26/2012).

The results of these studies have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“Often, children who suffer from dyslexia diagnosed after 3 years as a mockery of his school friends. Or after a parent scold them because they are considered lazy. So that the children often lose confidence in himself,” says Gaab.

The study was based on an emerging understanding of dyslexia as a problem by identifying and manipulating individual sounds that language forms, known as phonological processing.

To read, children must master the sounds of spoken language map to specific letters that form words. While children with dyslexia did not control the mapping process.

“Early signs of dyslexia may include difficulties with rhyming, mispronouncing words or confused about the words that sound alike. It is a symptom of a very early,” said Dr. Sally Shaywitz, director of the Center for Dyslexia and Creativity at Yale University .

Dyslexia affects about 5 percent to 17 percent of all children and one of two children with a family history of the disorder will have difficulty in reading, these children will have difficulty spelling and having trouble understanding the words.

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