How to know if my son has dyslexia?

Question

My son is 7 years old and is strugeling in school , he is curently repeating 1st grade. He is in speach class and extra reading help but what are some signs that he may have dyslexia?The school isnt ready to test him for it yet but I dont want it to go to far if he has it I mean he is already a grade behind.

Answer 1

First, teachers are not educational psychologists. While it may seem like transposed letters is a clean indication of dyslexia, nothing could be further from the truth. Letter reversals are common through Decmber of 2nd grade. As a former 2nd grade teacher, I did not get worried until mid-Spring. There are more important things to look for, not mere symptoms.

What you need to do is tell your child's teacehr that you worry he may have a learning disability. A little known concept is that when a parent asks for testing, the school district usually follows through and does it, if for the purpose to protect itself against a future lawsuit (i.e., they refused and the kid really did have LD). So, share your concerns. Listen to the teacher (she is, after all, a professional whose experience is very important). Ask -- be prepared for the entire process to take 6 months, from the initial notification through test results -- and read everything they send you carefully.

Now -- most importantly -- do not let anything you find out educationally/
psychologically to become a crutch for your child. I have dyslexia (albeit a mild form) but my parents did not let me rest on that as an excuse. I am 1 year away from being a Ph.D., something your avergae dyslexic could never aspire to. So set high expectations for success from your son. Support him in his growth (I had a tutor in high school) and expect him to learn. Good luck!

Answer 2

well the first thing is do you have it??? I'm dyslexic and it's not much of a problem... does your son switch numbers around when he writes/talks?? usally it's one inpaticular, like mine was d i always put b , ( ex: bab instaed of dad) and it looks right to me... your son don't even notice if he is, atleast not until someone points it out...
when he goes to turn off the water does he turn it the wrong way first?? i still do that alot.. the funniest thing is when i spell a word back wards, letters and all... that is the biggest problem.. it took me a whole piece of paper to write suyrp... i would tell the school they're stupid for no wanting to test him now.... i wouldn't hold him back though, it might hurt him more then help... I would try this : write some words on a some paper, but write some of them backwards if not all ( words he already knows ), then ask him to read them... tell him to write the numbers 69( i knoe not the best number, but he's more likely to switch these) like five times, to see if they get switched... on thing about being dyslexic is i can do those Find-a-word puzzles better then any one i know..... i hope this helps you a little.... and don't make the mistake of thinking he's not smart because of this, i bet he's smarter then most! :o )

Answer 3

I am a Dyslexia Interventionist with a Houston-area school. Most children aren't tested until second grade or later. Often times, difficulties could result from immaturity. Give it 6 weeks, then approach the Dyslexia coordinator at the campus (usually the Reading Specialist), and request a screening.

Answer 4

well from what you have typed... you may have dylexia... so it is possible he may have it..
if he misspells some words frequently like you have with struggling and currently and speech. They may be signs.

Your son would be very intelligent but unable to grasp spelling and the order in which letter or numbers are.
He would have a slight lack of balance and get bored easily, which is why they lack concentration.
I have several dyslexic friends.. they are all great people but they just muddle up their letters.
if he is dyslexic you are best to get him professionally tested, because he can then have extra help and he will get extra times on any exams.. it will benefit him greatly if it is medically diagnosed.

Answer 5

Ask the school to deliver an academic pyscologist in. it rather is not any longer as undesirable because it sounds, she or he will have the means to pinpoint the variety of dyslexia your toddler has and propose steps to be taken via the school to help the concern. it rather is coming from very own adventure. I even have cerebal palsy which specially outcomes the legs, however the school observed that i replaced into very intellegent, yet for some reason i could no longer write nicely. although I knew precisely what i had to jot down i might pass over out the remarkable be conscious etc..it additionally took me longer to jot down issues down than human beings, yet they realised that this replaced into to do with the innovations injury I had after beginning. I saved lacking words, spelling issues incorrect and that i had a concern with Maths. This perplexed my college considering that at 13 i replaced into interpreting 600 paged e book on Hiistoryll! yet they knew some thing replaced into incorrect. so that they had me assessed via an academic pycologist who stated I had visio spatial perceptial problems, and that i replaced into very severe point of intellgence the message from the innovations to the hand might wander off and for this reason i might pass over out words as a effect the school now understanding the concern began to style it via permitting me to have a scribe for tests. i might tell the scribe what to jot down and she or he might write it down for me hence overcoming the concern. as a effect of this methodology I flew via my tests, went to uni have been given an MA and that i'm now doing a PhD in history. So an academic pyscologist would desire to be the respond

Answer 6

well it helps if he is taught properly at home: "strugeling" "to far" "curently" "speach" struggling, too far, currently, speech
Have 2 sheets with the exact same sentences and streams of numbers. (a copy for you and for him) follow along as he reads them. Does he flip any letters around in the words as he reads? does he flip words around in the sentence? does he read numbers backwards?

Answer 7

Have him write out the Alphabet and copy a paragraph from a book. Then look for backward and transposed letters.