Vocabulary

Blogger Janet George, M.Ed., Fellow/AOGPE

If you have a learning difference or live with a person who has a learning difference, you struggle with language. Language, according to Webster’s is; any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people, who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another. Dyslexia is a neurological difference in the brain and effects the brain’s ability to process language “into, through, and “out of” the brain. So the “symbols and systems” of language are disrupted, and communication inhibited. Struggling with language can look like several things: Does any of this sound familiar?

• Trouble with reading, writing, spelling and possibly the “words” of math (less than, minus, fewer than, increases, decreases, greater than, etc.).
• Finds it difficult to retrieve certain words – especially under pressure – and uses the words “thing” and…