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

Building Dreams, Shaping Futures:

Community Celebrates Grand Opening Of

New Charter School, Bodwell Academy

The community celebrated innovation and learning at intellectual and orthopedic disabilities. The school is a $2.5 state-of-the-art playground, and six individual classrooms
the official grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony of million renovation and remodeling of The Arc’s Courim Center. for preschool, middle school, and high school students.
Bodwell Academy in Riviera Beach on Monday, Aug. 12. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, guests toured the The Arc of Palm Beach County is excited to begin a new
Bodwell Academy is The Arc of Palm Beach County’s new, school to view its new features, including a media and library era in education!
tuition-free charter school that provides education and life care room, a nurses’ station, a high school club room, sensory Photos courtesy of Tracey Benson Photography
services to students ages 3 to 22 who have varied levels of rooms, a large open patio deck, a turf-covered courtyard, a

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