A Study on Language Disorder and a Dyslexic Child

Nowadays, there is a hot issue but it is not a new case anymore in psycholinguistics; it is dyslexia. Dyslexia is related to language disorder and learning disability. Yet, this study focused on the learning difficulties and learning method. This study described the types of difficulties of the dyslexic character and the method to overcome the difficulties. To get the data of difficulties and the method to overcome those difficulties, this study used descriptive qualitative approach. Besides, it used Levinson (Syndrome of Dyslexia) and Learner‘s (perception) theories to analyze data related to learning difficulties and Gillingham and Stillman”s theory to analyze the method which is used to overcome learning difficulties. Based on the finding, it is found three types of difficulties which are appropriate with the types of dyslexia based on the problem. Those are reading, writing, and arithmetic disorder/difficulty. Those are because the character does not use five elements of visual and auditory perception for each basically academic skill which will be mentioned broadly in the paper.