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A Dyslexia Test - The First Step in Overcoming Dyslexia

By Jorge Chavez

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Published: 20Oct2009
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Dyslexia is a neurological condition that affects perhaps 10-15 out of every 100 people. Amongst Adults only 5 out of 100 are ever tested, identified and helped. This would indicate that 5-10 adults out of every 100 are undiagnosed dyslexics.

Dyslexia affects one's ability to effectively see, especially to convert symbols on paper into letters and words or to convert them into the sounds of spoken words. With dyslexics, their eyes see just fine, but the brain appears to have difficulty interpreting the signals from the eyes into words, ideas and sounds.

No two cases of dyslexia are exactly alike. The exact problem and its severity vary widely from person to person. It ranges from a mild hindrance to severe disabilities.

School age children are now routinely screened for dyslexia. Once identified they are then tested fully, diagnosed in detail and set on the correcy path to learning for dyslexics. Dyslexics are just as bright as anyone else (more so, some say) but they just learn differently and need to be taught differently, that's all.

Those of us who finished grade school more than about 15 years ago, when widespread dyslexia testing became the rule rather than the exception, were just out of luck. Dyslexics were ridiculed, called names like "retard", treated as mentally dificient. They suffered and were scarred from this. They learned to hide their differences.

They avoided ever having to read aloud, avoided having to manipulate numbers or symbols. They took jobs that would appear to be below those which their intelligence and abilities would indicate. All this in order to hide their differences caused by dyslexia.

The only way to detect dyslexia for sure is through a dyslexia test. Once that was a pretty big deal, required going one on one with a trained expert, cost a lot of money.

Recently, a test prepared by experts and now certified as accurate, has become available online. It is only for adults (16 or older), is currently only available in English. It takes about half an hour and costs less than dinner for two at a medium-good restaurant.

Since it is online it can be taken anywhere, anytime. It does not matter where you are in the World. All you need is a computer and an Internet connection. Immediately afterward you get a copy of the complete written analysis, showing the test results in detail.

If you are not dyslexic, you will know right away. If you are, you will know that you have a problem, generally in what area and approximately to what severity. That could lead to more specific and detailed testing, but just knowing that there is a problem, puts you immediately on the road to overcoming dyslexia.

Might you or someone you know be one of the undiscovered adult dyslexics out there? Why not get tested and find out?

Once diagnosed dyslexics can be taught how to learn and do practically anything that non-dyslexics do. Any dyslexic problem can be drastically reduced or overcome completely. There is even a "gift of dyslexia", special abilities that come into play once the problems are overcome.

Take the test. It could be a life-changing experience.

Jorge Chavez is an author, writer and researcher at the Dyslexia Tests for Overcoming Dyslexia website. For more information on dyslexia symptoms and dyslexia testing, follow this dyslexia test link.

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