CHINESE DYSLEXIA?

This article was written by a Speech Language Pathologist some years back. What she described is commonly experienced by many of the dyslexics I encounter in the course of my intervention work. In addition to struggling with the English language, many of these children also struggle with the Chinese language.

As far as I know, there is no official test in Singapore for Chinese dyslexia and the diagnosis is not recognised. I agree with the author that dyslexia can occur in any language and I know for a fact that it has affected people learning other languages.

Regardless of which language a child struggles with, it goes back to the root cause of confusion with symbols that exist in languages. In the case of the Chinese language, the strokes, the radicals, the high frequency words, the similarity in characters and pronunciation.