How is dyslexia treated?

A dyslexia should be treated as early as possible.This helps those affected enormously in their development and can enable the children to have a normal school life. It is important that the parents and teachers approach the children with patience and understanding. There are various exercises for dyslexia on the Internet or in books.

There are various worksheets that contain exercises. For example, for visual differentiation. This trains the children to recognize letters, syllables and words better.

Optical memory exercises promote the recognition of pictures, letters and words. These exercises are playful like Memori. There are also exercises on acoustic differentiation and acoustic memory.

These exercises should help to better understand differences between “bull” and “forehead” or “falling” and “pale”. There are many exercises suitable for children. For example, an exercise on acoustic differentiation could be that there are different pictures on a worksheet, of animals, clothes, a house, a flashlight, etc.

and the children should recite the pictures once and then number them according to the alphabet. In this way the children practice in a playful way and at best have a lot of fun with the dyslexia exercises. On the Internet there are various reading/spelling games/software that children can use to playfully work on their dyslexia.

These include games like Memori with words and pictures, syllable mahjong, stumbling blocks, vowel squares or a maze with words. There are various games for every childhood to stimulate an interest in letters or words through play. Depending on the age and interest of the child, there are games for practice for every taste. In addition, there are also real “hands-on” games for practicing with dice, blocks, wooden letters or letter stamps for children with dyslexia. Learning games are a good way to encourage the children and develop joy in learning.

What is the prognosis?

A dyslexia cannot be prevented, but it can be treated well. It is important that dyslexia is treated as early as possible. This can significantly reduce the deficits compared to non-dyslexics.

If dyslexia is treated early, the children’s mental difficulties can be reduced. Children with dyslexia develop fear of failure and school anxiety at an early age and tend to develop depressive moods and psychosomatic complaints. Early therapy can in many cases prevent such serious complications and help the children to develop healthily. Consequently, the timing of treatment determines the prognosis and an early start of therapy usually leads to a very good prognosis.