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What Causes Dyslexia?

By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., Licensed School Psychologist

If you have a loved one reading difficulty resides in your family tree, it might be is used. I am certified by Susan Barton who is the creator
with dyslexia or suspected the root cause. Approximately 60 percent of people with of the widely used and evidenced based Barton Reading
dyslexia in your child, you dyslexia have a genetic link. Another cause of dyslexia and Spelling System. She taught me how to accurately
might have asked yourself, is presumed due to neurodevelopmental differences in identify dyslexia through a specialized battery of tests
“What causes dyslexia?” It brain structure. Functional MRI imaging of the brain that we use in my practice.
is a question many parents I has allowed researchers to note reduced activations in Once identified, dyslexia treatment is specialized
work with ask because when left temporal, parietal, and fusiform regions. There is reading instruction which substantially differs from
your child is diagnosed often a deficit in the phonological loop which interferes general classroom-based reading instruction. Our testing
with dyslexia you want to with learning and remembering the sounds of language. identifies the best way for your child to learn to become
know if you caused it. I Other researchers identified that people with dyslexia a proficient reader.
reassure many parents that have slower rapid automatic naming which is distributed Call (561) 625-4125 if you are concerned about your
they did not cause their across four lobes and results in decreased reading speed. child’s reading and would like understanding and answers.
child’s dyslexia by not reading to the child in the womb, Although the causes of dyslexia vary, dyslexia can Our website is JimForgan.com.
not reading aloud enough to the child, or somehow not be identified through a comprehensive battery of school
emphasizing learning in the home. neuropsychological testing. There is not a sole test that All About Kids on page 7
Researchers have not identified one cause for dyslexia. is accepted to diagnose dyslexia but rather a pattern of
They have identified that dyslexia is highly genetic. If reading, spelling, and phonological processing testing that

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