DS2 is nearly 10 and in Y5.
Whilst the word dyslexia has been muttered over the years, no one appears to have actually tested DS for it- possibly because I've always said 'No, it's just 'boy!'. Now I am beginning to wonder whether I need to be more pro-active and get DS screened.
He has just had a 10 week session of 1:1 tuition, in school, to try and sort out his written work: Capitals, punctuation etc, but you sit him down to write something and suddenly we're back to the start: different phonetic spelling of the same word across the- well, page? Does 2 sentences in half an hour constitute a 'page'?! Complete inability to organise thought into the written word, losing his place in the text easily and so on.
His reading is 'OK' (ORT 15) though there's a lot of guessing like picking the first 2 letters of a longer word and guessing the rest- he rarely gets -ing and -s endings correct as written. He gets is, it, in, and and the wrong at least once per page. His comprehension, however, is assessed as being fine.
Now, from experience, I am thinking to bypass his teacher and go straight to the school SENCO to request a dyslexia screening. She, of course, would report to the teacher but my feeling is that mainstream teachers aren't really trained to pick up dyslexia or autism as such. Class teachers may suspect but often apparently with no more than a layman's perception. When they do, they might refer on, but I am wondering whether it is time to be Mother Bear and to start insisting that I think there's more to DS2's 'issues' than averagely clever and 'typical' boy. DS would be known to the SENCO as she was the facilitator of the 1:1 tuition so we're not going in 'cold'.
Would you agree with my approach?