Is it because of dyslexia that children can't read books? In order to overcome the problem of reading, parents try to do this.

Some time ago, she asked me what books were suitable for a 6-year-old child and asked me to send her a list of books. It is not difficult for her to understand what happened to her during this time.

The days of epidemic prevention at home made her pay attention to her children's reading. She reads books with her children every day, and then finds that children don't like reading. When reading, they make mistakes and play by themselves. They just forgot the words they just knew, but they just finished reading them, but they have no idea what they are reading.

So my friend began to suspect that the child would not have dyslexia!

Under the current situation that contemporary mothers begin to spell out their children's reading, this idea has already tortured her a little. If the child really has this problem, it will be his biggest learning obstacle.

Many experts say that this is a common but easily overlooked problem, because its incidence rate is 20%, which means that one in every five children suffers from dyslexia.

However, this data is an average data, because English-speaking countries and Chinese-speaking countries have great differences in reading because of different characters.

So the incidence is quite different: English-speaking countries are as high as 10%~30%, while Chinese-speaking countries are 3%~5%, so dyslexia is more common among children in western countries.

So in western society, everyone is very familiar with this concept, and early recognition and intervention of dyslexia is very common, but in China, it is not so important.

This difference in probability is mainly related to the linguistic characteristics of English and Chinese. English is phonetic and Chinese is ideographic.

English vocabulary is related to pronunciation, that is, English vocabulary is related to everyday language, while Chinese character learning needs a literacy stage to link pronunciation with symbols.

This leads to different age groups when reading independently. Some experts pointed out at the Sino-Western children's reading education exchange seminar that children in western countries can enter the stage of independent reading at the age of 4, while children in China can generally do it at the age of 8, so children can develop better.

In addition, the method of creating Chinese characters is more helpful for children to understand the meaning of words, so the probability of dyslexia among children in China will be smaller.

The act of reading is actually very complicated. It requires children's vision, brain and other organs to work at the same time to complete the recognition, understanding and memory of words. Therefore, the obstacle comes from the uncoordinated comprehensive processing of visual and auditory information by the brain, which ultimately affects children's reading and spelling.

To determine whether a child has dyslexia, parents can refer to these manifestations:

(1) Children can't concentrate on reading and can't organize their concentration;

I can only master a small part of the words I have read and read;

③ It is difficult to grasp the order and understand the concept of time;

4 read slowly and read according to your own ideas;

⑤ Reading and writing are very difficult;

⑥ Poor dictation and slow copying speed;

These manifestations can only be used as a reference, and further judgment needs to go to the hospital to do a series of related tests for doctors to evaluate. Parents are also concerned that if children really have dyslexia, is there any way to change it?

There are two kinds of dyslexia:

Nonspecific dyslexia: Affected by social environment, family environment, mood, attention and psychology.

Specific dyslexia: without the above factors, it is caused by dysfunction of cerebellum or other brain regions.

The first is more acquired influence, and the second is dysfunction.

There are many children who can't read, not all of them are dyslexia, and even dyslexia is not necessarily a specific dyslexia. Therefore, for more parents, what needs to be concerned is how to make their children fall in love with reading by changing the environment.

In childhood, active intervention and adjustment after finding problems can change non-physiological dyslexia.

I. Family environment

As we all know, the environment has a great influence on children's behavior, and this environment not only means a quiet room, rich books, or a rule that books must be read every day, but also includes a watching mother.

Nowadays, many families have such a problem: parents are too utilitarian and impatient with their children to study, which gives them great psychological pressure.

This intense and purposeful reading method greatly affects children's interest and mood in reading, and it is easy to refuse to read, with low efficiency, high error rate and little gain. Over time, it will form acquired reading obstacles.

Parents are advised to adjust their mentality and focus on how to stimulate their children's active reading interest instead of supervising their reading behavior. For example, tell children more interesting stories and natural phenomena in chat, seriously answer children's unconstrained questions, and let children choose to read books independently.

Second, children's attention training

Children's poor reading effect is probably related to inattention.

The development of children's attention is also an important topic. I wrote an article about the development of children's attention at different stages. Parents who want to know can click to see:

Three minutes of heat is a child's nature? No, it is the attention development level of his peers. He didn't keep up.

How to make children concentrate on reading?

First of all, don't force your child to put down his mobile phone to read when he is playing with his mobile phone or toys, but persuade him to read when his mood is relatively stable and his acceptance is relatively high. Or slowly develop the habit of reading at a fixed time, so that children can accept it psychologically.

Secondly, use mindfulness to guide children to pay attention to the current environment and what they are doing. For example, guide children to read names before reading.

Or say to the children, let's continue to watch the story of Simba, the lion king, to attract children's attention.

Then start reading. Don't interrupt your child in the process of reading independently. Even if you hear that your child has read a word or two wrong, don't rush to correct it, which will destroy your child's mood and attention.

When children are reading, parents can sit by and concentrate on their own books. Don't let the child feel that you are staring at him again.

Children don't need to read for too long. Children around 6 years old can concentrate on 15~20 minutes at a time, and the reading time set by parents can be half an hour or 40 minutes, so that children will observe their mothers' concentration before and after reading, thus imitating adults' behavior, consciously keeping quiet and entering thinking links such as association and imagination.

Third, the guidance of reading methods

A child's transition from parent-child reading to independent reading is also the stage of his continuous accumulation of literacy. It needs a combination of various reading methods to make children gain more in reading, and inappropriate reading methods will affect children's reading interest and behavior.

Finger reading helps children understand words through pronunciation and is suitable for books with a small number of words.

Reading aloud helps children to mobilize various sensory input information and consolidate literacy achievements, which is suitable for children with auditory learning style.

Extensive reading method, when children have a certain reading foundation, their understanding ability is improved, and they have the ability to guess new words according to the general idea. It is suitable for children to read books in their fields of interest, and they can read them with relish without guidance.

Intensive reading is suitable for very wonderful stories or articles. For example, if a child likes a book very much, he will read it again and again. At this time, he can put forward more requirements in the process of repeated reading, such as learning and extending keywords, appreciating and imitating beautiful sentences, etc.

In short, as long as these methods are carefully adjusted and corrected, children can gradually restore their reading ability and interest.

Even with specific dyslexia, parents don't need to be too discouraged with their children. They can be corrected through professional life, such as multi-sensory channel method, vision, hearing, movement, touch and other nerve tissue correction methods.

Many people have heard of dyslexia from some celebrities. Children with dyslexia can't study hard, but they still make extraordinary achievements. For example, talented Leonardo da Vinci and Edison were considered stupid children when they were young, but their later achievements surpassed many "smart people".

Although reading is an important way of learning, not being able to read does not mean that there is no way to learn. As long as children keep enough curiosity and keep learning, they can also achieve extraordinary life.