Writing letters and words backwards are symptoms of dyslexia.

Dyslexia Myths

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Charleen Long
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
True
False
Answer explanation
Writing letters and words backwards are common in the early stages of learning to read and write, among average and dyslexic children alike.
It is a sign that orthographic representations (i.e., letter forms and spellings of words) have not been firmly established, not that a child necessarily has a reading disability (Adams, 1990).
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30 sec • 1 pt
Reading disabilities are caused by visual perception problems.
True
False
Answer explanation
The current consensus based on a large body of research (e.g., Lyon et al., 2003; Morris et al., 1998; Rayner et al., 2001; Wagner & Torgesen, 1987) is that dyslexia is best characterized as a problem with language processing at the phoneme level, not a problem with visual processing.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If you just give them enough time, children will outgrow dyslexia.
True
False
Answer explanation
There is no evidence that dyslexia is a problem that can be outgrown. There is, however, strong evidence that children with reading problems show a continuing persistent deficit in their reading rather than just developing later than average children (Francis, Shaywitz, Stuebing, Shaywitz, & Fletcher, 1996). More strong evidence shows that children with dyslexia continue to experience reading problems into adolescence and adulthood (Shaywitz et al., 1999, 2003).
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More boys than girls have dyslexia.
True
False
Answer explanation
Longitudinal research shows that as many girls as boys are affected by dyslexia (Shaywitz, Shaywitz, Fletcher, & Escobar, 1990). There are many possible reasons for the over identification of males by schools, including greater behavioral acting out and a smaller ability to compensate among boys. More research is needed to determine why.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Dyslexia only affects people who speak English.
True
False
Answer explanation
Dyslexia appears in all cultures and languages in the world with written language, including those that do not use an alphabetic script such as Korean and Hebrew.
In English, the primary difficulty is accurate decoding of unknown words.
In consistent orthographies such as German or Italian, dyslexia appears more often as a problem with fluent reading – readers may be accurate, but very slow (Ziegler & Goswami, 2005).
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
People with dyslexia will benefit from colored text overlays or lenses.
True
False
Answer explanation
There is no strong research evidence that intervention using colored overlays or special lenses has any effect on the word reading or comprehension of children with dyslexia (American Optometric Association, 2004; Iovino, Fletcher, Breitmeyer, & Foorman, 1998).
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A person with dyslexia can never learn to read.
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False
Answer explanation
This is simply not true. The earlier children who struggle are identified and provided systematic, intense instruction, the less severe their problems are likely to be (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000; Torgesen, 2002). With adequately intensive instruction, however, even older children with dyslexia can become accurate, albeit slow readers (Torgesen et al., 2001).
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