Indulge me, is dyslexia too frequently exasperated by poor teaching?

There are useful techniques to help the dyslexic. Without good training, dyslexics are not recognized as early as they should be and do not receive the kind of help they need to be mainstreamed effectively without struggling in school. Better teacher training is essential to better education.

Some have also suggested that learning to read too early, before your brain is ready, can increase the likelihood of developing dyslexia because you haven't yet developed a natural understanding of the differences between orientations of symbols. Some kids are ready to learn to read as early as 4. Others shouldn't begin seriously learning until 6 or even 7. Progressive education can be more effective for each child, but it is very difficult to do well and, which is a problem for politicians, extremely difficult to measure.

I really disagree with him. My best friend is dyslexic, and she actually does really well in school. She got good support in primary, and loves learning. It's just her spelling is awful. She can rote memorise off a list of words and spell them back, but when it comes to writing them 10 minutes later she'll spell them incorrectly again. This is just my opinion, but there were a few dyslexic kids in my primary class and they all hated school. I think it was the way we were taught, and it was obvious that they were failing. So they couldn't stand being in class. It's like when you don't like the subject, you won't pick it up as well. They hated school because it was obvious they were failing, they avoided school and did even worse. "Stringer said if dyslexia existed then countries such as Nicaragua and South Korea would not have nearly 100 percent literacy rates." Did he ever think of the different education systems? Maybe they provide better for the students.

Poor teaching and/or lack of interest from parents towards their educational outcomes can result in a child underachieving, particularly with reading and writing which in turn are fundamental for the success of many other subjects with exception to maths perhaps.

However Dyslexia is something different, this is linked to reduced activity in a primitive part of the brain that controls movement, co-ordination and balance causing the child to struggle with reading and formation of simple words, it is often easy to spot a child with Dyslexia as they may write their letters back to front.

So, in short, poor teaching and Dyslexia are two different things.

Well it seems strange that it wasn't anywhere near the problem its deemed today when my kids were at school, and it was even rarer when I was at school, and its no good saying it wasn't recognised, there were a few special schools for challenged children but they were very few and far between, today's kids have different challenges, single parents, no tier systems, no figures of authority and teachers who themselves have trouble with English, we have kids in comprehensive schools today, that cant read, cant write, cant spell, cant add up and it has nothing to do with be dyslexic, its bad teaching practice, political correctness and interference from governors, government and illiterate parents interfering, with over burdened heads forced into box filling and quoter's hitting investment programs, for to days youths , a large majority know they will have a hell of a task in finding employment,the future of this country is in a real bad way, due to uncontrolled immigration putting unbearable strain on all our services, especially the schools,

however you spell it, we are deep in the Do Do,

I believe that though dyslexia is not exasperated by poor teaching, poor teaching and wrongly identifying a dyslexic student as a "poor" students affects the morale level of such students.

The teaching fraternity should be "trained" to understand dyslexia and show special attention to such students.

The following web site provides some good insights into dyslexia, what causes it and one way to cope with dyslexia.

http://dyslexiatreatments.org/

(Probable)biological causes of dyslexia...: http://dyslexiatreatments.org/causes-of-dyslexia/

Treating dyslexia..: http://dyslexiatreatments.org/dyslexia-treatment/

To a degree, but I am under the belief dyslexia can also be biological. Perhaps if the student learned to recognize the thought patter, and "reverse the thought mentally" if I may, then the person can severely limit the effects.

I guess then my answer would be yes, but not just because of poor teaching, but failure to recognize and 'compensate for' dyslexia.

I agree with your idea.

I also think that a better standard of teachers (in some places) would help identify learning differences more effectively.

And, I think that things like ADHD would be much less if they ensured children got proper exercise in a week. Exercise and things like Art/Music feed a different part of the brain. Those things get cut and all of a sudden we all have a couple of generations of ADHD tagged children. Insane.

I believe the signs of dyslexia are often missed by teachers, thus children often don't receive instruction that takes their condition into consideration. It's not so much a matter of poor teaching as it is that it's simply not caught.

I think you have a point. About twenty years ago I was involved with a project called 'The right to read' . One client was an immigrant from the British Virgin Islands who had limited education. Although I then had little expertise I sensed some thing was wrong and advised he be referred to an ophthalmologist. He was found to have bilateral glaucoma! Teachers don't always get it right.

thought dyslexia was a condition?

but a lot of peoples spelling is substandard due to poor or incompetent teaching I guess.

think you do mean 'exacerbated', unless of course you do mean poor teaching makes dyslexia angry.