What is Dyslexia?

Signs, symptoms and support for children and adults.

Dyslexia is a learning difference that can affect reading, spelling, maths and eye tracking. Without the right support, these challenges can make learning frustrating for both children and adults. If you have dyslexia, you may skip words, lines, or even whole paragraphs and can struggle to maintain focus.

Common Dyslexia Symptoms:

Challenges with auditory and information processing
Difficulties planning, organising, and sequencing
Impaired motor skills and coordination
Short-term memory issues and poor recall
Trouble concentrating for long periods
Reduced confidence or self-esteem if untreated

Cellfield’s specialised programme is designed to address these symptoms. We work with children and adults across New Zealand to strengthen the brain’s auditory, visual and motor pathways, improving reading skills and overall learning ability.

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How we read.

Reading requires coordination across visual, auditory, oral, and motor functions.

Normal readers rapidly recognise words, while struggling readers experience slow and effortful reading. Normal readers use the left half of the brain in a compact, interconnected and highly efficient way. Struggling readers, however, use both sides of the brain in a disconnected and less efficient manner.

When initially learning to read, most children can adapt and compensate for the inefficient way the brain works. However, with more advanced states of reading it becomes problematic. Reading can become tiring, difficult, and frustrating. Children with dyslexia often find reading hard work and may ‘switch off’.

Why Cellfield’s Targeted Support Works.

Name: Cellfield
Address: 113 Harbourside Drive, Karaka, 2580, NZ
Telephone: 09 281 5421

Traditional tuition methods often have limited impact on struggling readers because of neurological differences.

However, Cellfield uses brain plasticity* and evidence-based interventions to overcome reading difficulties, create lasting improvements and help you transition to fluent reading with confidence.

Your brain will start being able to synchronise information, recognise words, utilise working memory and think about meaning – ultimately, you will start to enjoy reading!

*Brain plasticity, while sounding like a scary term, is just referring to changes in the neurological pathways in the brain – these could include changes in environment, emotions, behaviour and thinking. Cellfield aims to change the pathways in the brain and, as a result, reading and comprehension improves!

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