The process of dyslexia actually is impairment in the nerve processes and instruction aspects of the cortex, which are responsible for learning, reading and writing. It is not an intellectual disability per se, but more of a developmental one, as it progresses from the start and can affects normal learning functions. It has been diagnosed in various people, with all levels of intelligence, so its normal association with people who are intellectually disabled is pretty much an urban medical myth. If you do suspect that your child has dyslexia, then there are certain things you need to look out for as early warning signs so that you can admit them to early therapy.

Dyslexia is not an easy condition to live with and when it progresses together with a child in their crucial developmental stage, it can advance to a stage where therapy and even regressive treatment might not even be effective. You need to be able to spot the signs early, because intervention can really help with your child’s learning. Stutters and impediments in speech may be some of the early onset signs of dyslexia. Many of these sufferers will experience difficulties using their hearing devices (ears) and the speech centres to co ordinate language and speech. They may often stutter and even stumble their words to even the most simplest of words, sometimes mixing the alphabets and even adding their own to make the words easier to pronounce. Reading also requires that they sound off the words and it is imperative to their learning experience. You can see the signs quite clearly when you are within a learning experience with your child. They often get frustrated at reading and get distracted very easily.

They do not understand words and often use alphabet association. Children with dyslexia often confuse the before and after of reading, they cannot learn the alphabet, they do not understand the sound of letters, they confuse combination of worlds and because of these factors and the fact that most of the time, these learning environments require attention and interaction with other kids, they often become shy and withdrawn because of their fear and embarrassment. These are some of the signs you should be looking out for when it comes to early dyslexia. Once you are able to spot these early symptoms, you will be able to induce therapy and special and structured learning programmes to ensure that your child is not left out.

Attention deficit order is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder that affects about 5% of the world’s child population. It also has a tendency to affect boys more than it does girls, with an almost 2 to 1 ratio when it comes to condition achievement. While most people with attention deficit disorder do know even know that they have it in the first place, there are certain coping mechanisms that they develop when they enter adulthood to cope with the conditions and how it affects their behaviour. Methods of treatment would normally incur medication, the use of stimulants and various forms of therapy. While ADHD and attention deficit disorder is a controversial subject, with many camps arguing that it is a part of nuero development in certain specific children, many agree about the main symptoms of the condition.

Under the umbrella terms that can be used to describe ADHD or attention deficit disorder is disruptive behavioural disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder and anti social disorder. We will discuss the main symptoms that carry across these definitions and how you can spot them easily as well for things like early detection and treatment. One of the main symptoms is of course, impulsiveness. This is characterised often by children or individuals unable to control their emotions and their compulsive behaviour. They often act before thinking about the consequences, which can be quite dangerous, as children have been known to fling themselves of a high ledge of even a window due to their attention deficit disorder.

They also have a tendency to interrupt other people when they are in conversation and would insist that they be the centre of attention. There is also the issue of hyperactivity, one of the more common symptoms of attention deficit disorder. This is often seen and tangibilised as spells of restlessness, unable to sit down for a moment, fidgeting, squirming around, climbing on areas of the house or in public and even restless sleep ( the inability to enter into SMR sleep). The last main symptom is called inattention, one of the more popular pop culture symptoms featured on movies; but the problem is very real and very serious. These are more prevalent in children, who are unable to pay attention for a long period of time, easily distracted and unable to complete task given to them within any sort of a time frame. Also, you must know that in children, the hyperactivity can come across as defiance and bad conduct, which can be an almost obsessive behaviour pattern in children. These are the 3 main symptoms of attention deficit disorder you should know about and you can use this information for early detection and treatment.

The main symptoms of this condition as described by the original founder of the disease is the fact that children who have been affected by this will display a lack of non verbal communication, they have limited to even no empathy with their peers and often seen as physically clumsy. Like most of these developmental disorders, the symptoms and signs of the condition will appear quite early in stages of infancy and childhood, often well before they children turn three.

It is classified as a pervasive developmental disorder, which means there is no one symptom to describe the condition, rather an entire host of symptoms that appear sporadically or even as a single trend within a period of time. One of the more obvious symptoms is the inability for social and physical interaction within children affected by the disease. As mentioned earlier in the article, the biggest and most dangerous factor within Asperger’s autism is the lack of empathy that these children have for their peers when placed in social situations.

They lack the basic elements and functionaries of social interaction; they are unable to make or even maintain friends and do not have the emotional tools to maintain any sort of long term or even short term relationships. This is because they are unable to be spontaneous and maintain any sort of eye contact, non verbal skills like handshakes, facial expressions , posture and any form of gesture that can and might contribute to them overcoming social limitation and initiating contact. The funny thing about this condition is that those afflicted with AS are not normally classified as solitary or even withdrawn, they are able to verbally communicate quite well – but maybe not in the traditional sense. They often concentrate on a single topic or rattle on oblivious to the other person.

They are unable to read things like body language and facial expressions and base their actions completely within themselves. This self centred almost ego centric symptom is also quite common to ASD’s and AS – culminating in a social awkwardness that does not allow them to easily maintain relationships. They are also subject to the same repetitive and restrictive behaviour that most people with ASD and even autism experience. These sort of behaviours will appear as the child gets older and becomes more fixated with interests – there is a level of intensity to their interest that can sometimes be disturbing. The good this is that those with AS are able to develop language and cognitive skills without any obvious and apparent delay, which separates it from being a full blown ASD.

While it is not safe to say that autism is programmed into the genetic code of some individuals, we can say that it appears as an anomaly in the very genetic structure of some family trees, and can skip entire generations before appearing again. The science behind this is contentious, and research is always on going in the department of finding the true source of this brain developmental disorder. Right now the popular theory is that autism and ADS is explained by multi gene interactions and by even more rare mutations within the genetic stream. But it is of course much more complex than this simple explanation can give. Right now, it is said that autism affects every 6 out of 1, 000 people in the world today, which is an alarming figure.

There are reports of children and adults being affected with a low range of ASD and not even knowing it. The science and medicine community have actually calculated that more than a few hundred million people in the world are suffering from various degrees of autism. But the root of the problem is not only just genetic, there are other reasons why infants and toddlers contract this condition. Some say that pregnant mothers who abuse drugs and smoke during the crucial period of infancy can also affect their children’s brain development, but this is more relation to serious cases of autism and even Down Syndrome. However, there are ways to detect early signs of autism and the more simpler way is through observation of the child’s behaviour.

For one thing, kids with autism have a tendency to display repetitive behaviour, which includes things like stereotypy (purposeless movement, repetitive movement for no apparent reason for hours on end), compulsive behaviour, sameness ( the inability to resist inertia, insistence that things remain the same no matter how much they fly in the face of logic and reason), ritualistic behaviour and self injury. These are some of the more observable symptoms that you can look out for when you want to detect the early signs of autism. Early detection and therapy at such a stage is crucial when it comes to curing autism and reversing the developmental disorders associated with it before it advances to a stage when therapy becomes ineffective. Treat autism early and detect the signs. If you do suspect your child to be subject to this condition, then get him or her professionally appraised.