DYSLEXIA - The World of Words
- Mbah Chiwendu Inioluwa Dyslexia is a brain condition that affects how the brain processes language. Dyslexia makes it difficult for sufferers to read, spell, and write. As an English student, I was going through one of our textbooks, RUDIMENTARY PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY, then I came across a chapter titled Basic Speech Disorders of which dyslexia was one. At that very moment, I realized dyslexia didn't only have to do with difficulty with reading and writing but also in the effective identification of speech sounds and learning how to relate to words. Basically, dyslexia is not just about seeing letters or words backward, but it's the lack of phonemic awareness. That is the ability to manipulate phonemes,which are the smallest unit of sounds that make up words. (Uba 2016:18) opines that phonemes are less well developed among dyslexic individuals, which makes them order phonemes incorrectly or use epenthesis while reading. Epenthesis is the insertion or addition of...