How Does Dyslexia Influence Literacy?

Abstract

The approaches to dyslexia and reader skills were modelled hand in hand with the development of the knowledge in medicinal and pedagogical disciplines alike. The authors bring a short overview of them. The current knowledge is reflected in the support and intervention regarding reader skills. The recognition of the processes in the different phases of reader skill development is important mainly to prevent side effects of the experience of failure for child and adolescent and also to support strategy for improving reader competencies. In time, recognition of the barriers in the process of reading and the following intervention is the requirement for successful management of the school work and education. The variability and complexity of the reader's problems are supported by the life stories of the individuals with dyslexia published in the Community Zone of the Literacy Portal. These stories are analyzed based on the barriers creating reading problems in life and based on the strategies helping to overcome these barriers.