Lectoescritura y rendimiento escolar en un estudiante con dislexia.

Abstract

Dyslexia is a learning disorder that is currently frequently evidenced in the school context, mainly in the first academic levels, for this reason, dyslexia is described, in order to know the literacy problems that limit the learning of the different types of elements of the language such as writing and reading, this implies knowledge of vowels, the alphabet, phonemes and spelling, therefore, it affects the student's school performance. Therefore, in the Isabel La Católica School of Basic Education in the city of Machala, through pre-professional practices, it has been possible to know the case of an 8-year-old boy who attends the 4th level of basic general education, presents specific characteristics related to the learning disorder Dyslexia, therefore, the following problem arises: How does literacy influence the school performance of a student with dyslexia? and, as a general objective of the study, to analyze the influence of literacy on the school performance of a child with dyslexia. For the methodology of the present investigative work, a qualitative paradigm was used to interpret the characteristics of the object of study through the type of descriptive research, in addition, instruments were applied for the assessment of the study variables such as the reading and writing test of Dr. Olea , observation and interview guide, which provided the necessary information to analyze literacy and school performance. With regard to the results obtained, it was found that the student with Dyslexia has severely deficient literacy, that is, he lacks reading and writing skills, does not identify vowels, letters, therefore, it is difficult for him to write texts, since inverts, omits and replaces consonants, also, they have difficulties in reading, as a result of the aforementioned, poor school performance is shown. Through the analysis of each of the variables, it is concluded that literacy negatively influences the student's school performance, due to the various complications presented in this area.