There are several programs and methods used in treating dyslexia. One of these is holistic reading. However, this method has undergone through a lot of research and testing, which led to the discovery of some issues against it.
Holistic Reading
A lot of experts believe that one main issue in field of dyslexia, is holistic reading. Because of holistic reading, a lot of people have come to be sight readers that have holistic reflex instead of phonetic readers that have a phonetic reflex.
A holistic reader is someone who perceives each word as if its a little picture. It is somewhat similar to the configuration of Chinese ideograph, where the reader would try to think what the word the symbol or character represents.
On the other hand, a phonetic reader is someone who associates letters to sounds. He or she would have to sound out each syllabic unit, which blends into one articulated word.
The Issue At Hand
The main concern here is that, failure to teach someone to read phonetically, but requiring him or her to memorize thousands of sight words isnt really that helpful, since it can only produce educational dyslexia.
Sight words,...