Hello,

Do you think your child shows some form of dyslexia/reading challenges?

It can be difficult to spot because it’s a spectrum disorder and looks a little different on everyone.

To help you evaluate and understand your child’s challenges, here is a checklist of dyslexia symptoms to look for by age.

Preschool
• Not recognizing rhyming patterns (like in nursery rhymes)
• Struggling with remembering or naming letters, numbers, and colours
• Not recognizing letters in their own name
• Learning to talk late

Kindergarten-1st grade
• Not understanding that words break apart into sounds
• Not associating letters with sounds (that m sounds like mmm)
• Showing problems with speaking and pronunciation
• Having trouble sounding out words
• Misspelling easy words (like “dog”)

2nd-8th grade
• Reading slowly and awkwardly
• Disliking or avoiding reading out loud
• Confusing words that sound alike (i.e. “furnish” instead of “finish”)

9th-12th year/grade
 • Spelling words phonetically and inconsistently 
• Omitting small words and parts of longer words when reading out loud 
• Struggling to remember common abbreviations, including social media slang 
• Answering comprehension questions better when text is read aloud

It’s interesting how the symptoms change as the student gets older. Children use coping strategies such as guessing, memorisation, asking their classmates questions and so on.

Your child may need specific work to hit the milestones that allow them to keep up with their peers.

The goal is to develop fluent readers, who comprehend well and learn efficiently.

Regards

John

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