On a routine examination, a 5 year old kid wrote the following, what is the most probable diagnosis
This is a handwriting of the child who has dyslexia Specific learning disorders are group of disorders where the child has normal intellectual development and there is no pervasive development issues but the child has problem only with ceain aspects of learning namely reading, writing and calculation DYSLEXIA== in dyslexia the child has a problem with reading, they may make omission errors, addition errors, distoions, they are slow readers and have poor comprehension. DYSGRAPHIA==in dysgraphia the child makes mistakes in writing grammatic errors, punctuation errors, they do not sta the first letter of the sentence with a capital letter and their paragraph organization is poor. DYSCALCULIA==in dyscalculia the child has problem with mathematical basics like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They also have attention impairments that they make mistakes when copying from the black board to note book or from the class work to note book As here the child has problem only with specific disorders, specific training has to be given for improving the condition Reference: Kaplon and sadock, 11 th edition, synopsis of psychiatry, 11 th edition, pg no. 1181
Dyscalculia
Dysphagia
Dysphasia
Dyslexia
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