dd is in year one. She is doing well - on green and ready for next band I think - but there are some indicators that she may have inherited dp's dyslexia (though not as severely.) She mixes up b and d, although this is improving and may be developmentally normal, and also sometimes writing backwards (but she is left handed so may be normal at this age) - she also reverses most numbers. All of this can be normal I know and she may grow out of. At parents eve last term teacher said was keeping an eye and thought might be dyslexic but too early to say. At that point I was feeling confident she'd grow out of it.
The thing that's got me thinking she may have a problem is that now she is reading sentences a bit more fluently she frequently gets linking words mixed up (to instead of the, of instead of for etc) so the more compex words she has to read closely to work out she can mostly do easily but the words that she should now be reading automatically she can't. Is this normal for this age? It is still quite early doors for her reading sentences very fluently so maybe she's still working it out.
I am not massively worried in that she is progressing well and if she does have a problem I think is managing it pretty well. But she herself sometimes talks about a block about some things and that her brain mixes things up - she does seem to find some things harder than you might expect given general brightness and finds some aspects of school particularly challenging and tiring.
And so my biggest worry is that her confidence and motivation are affected - she seems to find things harder e.g than her younger ds who clearly grasps links and sequences more quickly than she did and has e.g. worked out that A is for apple a whole year earlier than she did. (Not that I should compare them but interesting to note that this took her a while to click even when she recognised letters and sounds it took her till she was four to match them to things.)
I'm going to have a word with her teacher but just wondered how I could support her best and if anyone had any thoughts or experience on how to make life easier if she does have a problem. Or should I just chill out and wait and see... maybe this is just one way of learning to read and she'll sort herself out.
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dyslexia or normal for age?
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alittleteapot · 26/02/2013 11:27
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