Do dyslexic children always struggle with reading?

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I hope nobody will mind me asking this. My DC is on ORT stage 6, in YR. I know she is doing well, and that it is above the NC expected level.

There is a family history of dyslexia and she has some of the co-morbid traits (which obviously don't always mean dyslexia, but they commonly co-occur in individuals who are dyslexic).

I wondered if anyone else's DC were good early readers and then turned out to be dyslexic? I hope you won't mind my asking. Although dyslexics can and often do do very well in education/life ultimately, it does make life harder and I would prefer for her not to have that struggle. Thanks.

Not in my experience, no. My DD is a great reader, always has been but cannot spell at all. She has 1 to 1 at school and has been screened for all the classic traits of dyslexia. I am a recent diagnosed dyslexic and spelling and reading are my best traits. As far as I understand, it's a spectrum and can manifest itself in many different ways.

Thanks FallenAngel. If you don't mind my asking, what does your DD struggle with?

no they don't always struggle - they can be compensating for their problems. If they have exceptional memories for example they can memorise words to keep them going for a long time up the levels, it may not become obvious until fonts get smaller and text more dense, longer more uncommon new words could show it up, some children just 'manage'.

I have one child with moving letters on the page and who knows phonics very well if she hears them but struggles to relate them to words written on the page but she has coloured glasses now and memorises the words. I have done toe by toe with her (well some of it anyway) and she now copes ok with new words most of the time. when she had a dyslexia test it was normal but we did notice the words she was given to read were all ones she had learned already and the only made up words she was given were less than 5 letters so she could just about manage to do them (or get enough of them right that she was within normal range). handwriting is awful, spelling is variable (3 different ways in 4 lines is quite common for her).

My lad read pretty well, but his handwriting was terrible. The stuff he mostly struggled with wasn't reading and writing but other things, like knowing what order the months go in. He still has problems with that and he's an adult now.

My son's dyslexia and a great reader - he didn't start to read at all until he was 7, but then zoomed straight to chapter books. Spelling and handwriting are where it hits him. Also speed.

I'm dyslexic, in the infants I was the best reader in my year and rarely struggled with reading, although I do still have to sound some words out in my head, large blocks of small text can be a bit of an issue due to visual stress but with overlays I can read well and children's books have big enough fonts that its fine, it wasn't until I started trying to read things like The Hobbit in year 3 that I noticed the letters jumping around.

Its spelling and getting things in the right order (months, days etc.) that I really struggle with, and written grammar and punctuation. Also I miss out words in sentences when I'm writing as I can't write them as quickly as I'm thinking and cannot take notes from someone talking or write if there is someone talking in the same room (because I get muddled between the word I'm hearing and the word I'm trying to write).