Dyslexia Therapy - Tami Everett
- Reed Elementary
- Characteristics of Dyslexia
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Characteristics of Dyslexia
Dyslexia means a disorder of constitutional origin manifested by difficulty in learning to read, write, or spell, despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence, and sociocultural opportunity.- Difficulty reading real words in isolation and lists of words
- Difficulty accurately decoding nonsense words
- Slow, inaccurate, or labored reading
- Difficulties with learning sound/symbol correspondences
- Confusion of visually similar letters (p/d/b/q, w/m, h/n)
- Confusion of auditorily similar letter (d/t, b/p)
- Difficulties remembering basic sight vocabulary
- Problems with segmenting words into individual sounds and blending sounds to form words
- Difficulty remembering spelling words over time and applying spelling rules
- Significant difficulty reading and spelling multisyllabic words, often omitting entire syllables as well as making single sound errors
- Lack of awareness of word structure (prefixes, roots, suffixes)
- Omission of grammatical endings in reading and/or writing (-s,-ed,ing)
Students in elementary school with dyslexia will show some of the previously mentioned characteristics. Before first grade a child may have difficulty recognizing and producing rhymes, remembering rote information such as letter names and phone numbers, and delay in talking or mispronouncing words. In middle school a dyslexic student may show difficulties with reading comprehension and learning new information from text. This is a result of underlying word recognition difficulties and significant difficulties in writing related to problems in spelling and organizing ideas. High school students may have difficulty with note taking and learning a foreign language.
Resources: Overcoming Dyslexia, Literacy & Learning, Allen ISD Dyslexia Handbook for Parents