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Dyslexia

How Common is Dyslexia?

  • Dyslexia is the most common learning disability.
  • As many as 17% of U.S. schoolchildren have dyslexia
  • As many as 85% of students with learning disabilities have dyslexia alone or with other conditions.
  • Roughly 1/3 of students with ADHD also have dyslexia
  • Dyslexia can occur with no family history, but 40% of people with dyslexia will have a sibling, child, or parent with the same challenges.

What is Dyslexia?

Dyslexia causes difficulty with reading, spelling, writing and even speaking.
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Dyslexia is often confused with other learning and attention issues that cause similar difficulties.
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Dyslexia shares characteristics with dysgraphia, but they're not the same thing.
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Characteristics:
  • Difficulty associating sounds with letters and letters with sounds.
  • Confusion when pronouncing words and phrases, such as saying "man lower" instead of "lawn mower."
  • Difficulty reading with proper tone and grouping words and phrases together appropriately.
  • Difficulty "sounding out" unfamiliar words.
  • Trouble writing or copying letters, numbers and symbols in the correct order.
  • Trouble rhyming.

How is Dyslexia Diagnosed?

Dyslexia is a language-based disorder. It can be diagnosed by the following professionals:

-Education Psychologist

-Neurologist

-Speech-Language Pathologist

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Many factors must be considered before a child is diagnosed with dyslexia.  These include the following:

 

-IQ scores

Children with dyslexia often have average to above average intelligence.  If a child is struggling to read, yet their intelligence is above average, dyslexia may be the cause.

 

-Language scores

A comprehensive evaluation of language skills should be administered.  A child with dyslexia may demonstrate difficulties with expressive language tasks.  Their understanding is normal, however they struggle to formulate cohesive ideas, find the right words or sequence events logically.

 

-Reading, writing and spellings sample

This is crucial. A child with dyslexia will have difficulties with most, or all of these tasks with varying degrees of difficulty depending on the severity.

 

-Family history

Dyslexia is hereditary.  If a family member has dyslexia, and your child is struggling academically, there is a good chance that dyslexia is to blame.

 

- Teacher reports/academic performance

It is important to see how the child is performing at school.  Their areas of strengths and weaknesses can reveal a lot.

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