pediatrics
Dyslexia
Treatment of Dyslexia
Educational interventions Treatment of dyslexia consists of educational interventions, including direct and indirect instruction in word recognition and component skills. Direct instructionincludes teaching specific phonics skills separate from other reading instruction. Indirect instruction includes integrating phonics skills into reading programs. Instruction may teach reading from a whole-word or whole-language approach or by following a hierarchy of skills from the sound unit to the word to the sentence. Multisensory approaches that include whole-word learning and the integration of visual, auditory, and tactual procedures to teach sounds, words, and sentences are then recommended. Component skills instructionconsists of teaching children to blend sounds to form words, segment words into word parts, and identify the positions of sounds in words. Component skills for reading comprehension include identifying the main idea, answering questions, isolating facts and details, and reading inferentially. Many children benefit from using a computer to help isolate words within text samples or for word processing of written work. Compensatory strategies, such as using audiobooks and taking notes using a digital recorder, can help children in later elementary school grades master content while continuing to build reading skills. Other treatments (eg, optometric training, perceptual training, auditory integration training) and drug therapies are unproved and not recommended. 