[The early detection of dyslexia and approach to treatment].
BACKGROUND
The first sign of problems of dyslexia appears in phonographic decoding when the child tries to associate graphic signs with phonological sequences so as to pronounce words. During this process the child tries to recognise words visually and associate them with the names of objects.


METHODS
Spatial agnosia is a very common symptom in children with dyslexia and may be detected at preschool age. This spatial disorientation is closely linked with the notion of body, time and sometimes rhythm. Difficulty in identifying colours is an early symptom of dyslexia. Drawing up a plan of work, taking into account the systems for processing cerebral information, allows us to recreate habits of multisensorial perceptive processing; motor, oral and cognitive production, after executive levels of thought, button up and top down systems for processing. Fast For Word (FFW) training helps to achieve advances in phonemic consciousness whilst other linguistic abilities such as phonological, semantic, syntactic and grammatical consciousness, working memory and sequencing of events are integrated. Hamlet is a programme for working in phonological concepts based on classification activities. It aims to favour the analysis of segments of words, syllables or phonemes and the classification of a particular segment as belonging to a particular phonological or orthographical category or not.
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Laboratorio para el estudio de las Funciones Cerebrales Superiores, Buenos Aires, Argentina. mce@interar.com.ar
D000377:Agnosia / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D012984:Software; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D014956:Writing