Helping DH with mis-pronouncing

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Hello All

Please point me at the correct forum if this isn’t the place……

DH sometimes mis-pronounces words, and jumbles up common phrases. For example ‘pacific’ not ‘specific’, or he will get someone’s name consistently wrong. He is the kindest person, and generally confident, but recently asked me if he might be dyslexic and all of a sudden at 60 it’s knocking his confidence. I don’t know much about all of this, where should I point my reading?

Thank you in advance.

Possibly dyslexic, does he think in pictures?

Real question, there's a few different types, some linked to colour blindness etc.

A bit dyslexic maybe, never diagnosed due to age. I was diagnosed at 50 and thought I had a pretty good command of the English language.

Is it consonant inversion? DS says "turdy" instead of "dirty" and "checkup" instead of "ketchup" etc. It could be verbal apraxia.

Came to say the same as the PP, my friend has verbal apraxia and that's exactly the kind of thing she does, she'll often use the wrong word, but close enough that you always know what she meant.

The wrong word is sometimes a totally different meaning to what she was getting at, but the same structure or sound.

That is very definitely a thing that goes with dyslexia. Did he have difficulties learning to read especially nearly 60 years ago when teachers didn't have any understanding of dyslexia. He has got this far. I don't think he needs to worry about it now but there is no shame is having dyslexia as the brightest of people and their is lots of gifting that goes with it.