![]() ![]() ![]() No amount of pressure or more reading was making up for the missing pieces in her ability to read. For example, my daughter Laine’s (2nd grade, 8 years old at start) reading ability (when she is such a bright, exuberant, creative, SMART kid) kept me up at night. Is the child then still dyslexic? That will depend on whether you feel dyslexia is fundamentally about learning to read or is a broader issue covering linguistics and the ability to manipulate words and sentences.Īs a parent working through the 20/21 school year in distance learning with 3 elementary kids, there were at least some positive upsides. When the child gets the right help and learns to read, some of these symptoms will naturally evaporate, others will remain. The other half find auditory processing hard and so it is natural to see speech and language weakness. So it is natural to see a lot graphic and artistic ability. Around half of those are bright, visual learners. They are related patterns.įor instance, 80% of struggling readers are sight-readers. So most of them are not symptoms at all, any more than being tall is a symptom of having bruises on your forehead. Most of the “symptoms” above can be related to one or more of these main causes of reading difficulty. ![]() Once you deal with all of those, most children can read at a good or average level for their age. You can read all about these and more here: Short-Term Memory Weakness – struggling to blend due to insufficient memory capacityĪuditory Processing Weakness – struggling to decode and blend due to a weakness in the way the brain interprets soundĪttention Deficit– struggling to focus on the task Stress Spirals– getting frustrated and then cross due to rising stress levels Irlen Syndrome/Contrast Sensitivity – sensitivity to black on white contrast Optilexia – the term we have coined for “whole word sight-reading” and guessingĮye-Tracking Weakness – difficulty focusing on a word in a sentence Well, in our experience, there are very clear reasons for each child not learning to read: So, what is this mysterious dyslexia phenomenon? What do all these symptoms really relate to? And how can so many, often conflicting, symptoms all relate to a single thing? ![]()
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