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Demystifying dyslexia Aamir Khan and Darsheel Safary in “Tare Zameen Par”
Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par may have spread awareness among many about dyslexia, but there is definitely along way to go before the issue is treated with the sensitivity it deserves.
A recent seminar organised by Educare Centre, a special school for dyslexics, was an attempt to demystify the issue. The seminar gave an opportunity to dyslexic students and their parents to interacted with the attendees and share their experience.
Speaking at the event, Dr. Sunita Sodhi, the founder of Educare, explained how the level of ignorance about dyslexia is displeasingly high. Dyslexia, a Greek word, is a learning disability and literally means difficulty with words. Dyslexics have trouble with reading and spelling, sometimes affecting their oral skills to a degree.
Only a few parents are willing to acknowledge that their child is dyslexic because of the imagined exaggerated stigma attached to it. It is rarely understood that dyslexia is not directly linked to the intellectual capacity of the child. As a result, dyslexic children, who are wrongly assumed to possess low IQ, suffer from low self-esteem and confidence. Sodhi states that the level of frustration the child undergoes in a regular school pushes some to extreme measures. Educare, founded in 1987, follows a multi-sensory training structure with emphasis on phonetic teaching by qualified teachers. According to Sodhi, there is little to no medical research being conducted in this field in India. Although dyslexics generally don’t require medication, some cases are prescribed doses over a short period of time. Sodhi says pharmaceutical companies in India don’t even manufacture these medicines, that when required have to be imported from abroad.
BHAMATI SIVAPALAN
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