Pinay Mom

When my husband and I were still in our first year of our married life, we usually borrows one of his nieces or nephews to stay in our place and be our “baby” for few days. One such beautiful baby girl was “Carl”. Carl was just any normal baby growing very active. Until she reached the age of 2 years old when we noticed that something was not normal. She had difficulty in walking and standing for too long. The worst was, she had a problem in talking.

At that time, we thought her understanding of words was slow because she’s still to young. However, our concerned grows into worst when at 4 years old she’s still had difficulty in expressing her thought. Until one day, my sister in law decided to bring Carl to an specialist and found out she’s suffering from dyslexia.

Honestly, at first I did not what is dyslexia (dyslexic, is the person suffering from dyslexia). I could not even spell it correctly. At first I thought it was a rare disease but I’ve found out later on that it was just a developmental disorder specially in the fields of reading and language.

Since we already knew her case, my sister-in-law tried to find a school for kids with this kind of disorder (she doesn’t want it to be called disability because of a negative connotation) but before that, she enrolled my niece on a dyslexia camp for kids. This was to prepare her for the regular classes. By the way, what I meant about “regular classes”,  these are special classes for those with dyslexia and learning challenged kids. During the summer camp, which lasted for almost a month, my sister also stayed on a dyslexia boarding school. Actually the summer camp was not only for my niece but for my sister-in-law including my brother also, so as a parent with special child, they will  know  how to rear my niece as normal as possible.

There is no medical cure for dyslexia but just like a modern wall art and decor that are hard to understand unless you will spend time in studying the arts, dyslexia kids can be taught to read and spell with some help from support groups, early detection  and of course with the encouragement of the parents.