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Dyslexia as a Barrier for Children Language Acquisition
Are your children really poor when they are reading or writing? Be cautious he/she maybe suffers dyslexia. Dyslexia is a syndrome caused by brain disorder particularly in left part of neurological language (Understanding Dyslexia, 2009). It was identified first by Oswald Berkhan in 1881 and term dyslexia began to be used in 1889 by Rudolf Berlin. Dyslexia is considered as a specific learning disability that affect directly to the ability of literacy such as reading and writing skill. However, dyslexia is not caused by intelligence factor rather than brain injury. It does not mean that dyslexics are stupid or they have low intelligence instead of having problem in their brain. It is proven that there are some famous scientists such as Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison had ever suffered dyslexia. Concerning it, dyslexia can block children language acquisition as a basic of other knowledge acquisition if it is not treated.
