Mixed dyslexia is a type of dyslexia in which there are impairments of both auditory perception, visual perception, visual-auditory memory and spatial imagination.

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Developmental dyslexia is a disorder with a neurobiological basis and is therefore related to brain functioning that is different from usual. If the abnormalities are in the occipital lobes, the child may have problems with differentiating letter shapes, problems with writing. If the lesions are in the temporal lobe, the child may not be able to differentiate between letters that differ in one feature, e.g. sonority and voicelessness, such as p-b, k-g. Changes in the frontal lobe (where semantic, or meaningful, analysis takes place) mean that the child may have problems with memory and attention.

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Symptoms that may suggest developmental dyslexia include:

  • failure to differentiate between certain sounds – those that differ in one feature, e.g. sonority and voicelessness, such as p-b, k-g,
  • reluctance to learn to read – this is due to the problem of mastering letters and repeating words that are written,
  • problems with motor coordination – children with developmental dyslexia avoid playing ball because they have trouble catching it,
  • problems with directional and spatio-temporal orientation – children with dyslexia have difficulty differentiating between right and left sides and determining the time of an event, hence their speech is chaotic and non-chronological,
  • indeterminate dominance of one side of the body (the child is ambidextrous or right-handed, but looks through the hole with the left eye, adjusts the left ear),
  • attention and memory disorders – a child with dyslexia has problems remembering the days of the week, learning a rhyme,
  • motor dysfunctions – problems with balancing, learning to ride a bike, playing ball or in class. Children with dyslexia have problems with buttoning buttons, tying
    eating with cutlery,
  • hyperactivity, impulsivity, emotional unbalance,
  • difficulties in writing letters – writing them in a mirror image, as well as rearranging sounds, twisting words.

Sources:

  1. https://www.pedagogszkolny.pl/viewpage.php?page_id=14
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