DD is 8 (9 in feb - year 4)
She is an intelligent girl, with a reading age more than 2 years older than she is and comprehension even higher... however (I've been reading through the dyslexia website so some of these don't sound obviously linked)
- spelling is roughly 1.5 years behind where it 'should ' be, and not consistent
- Sentences often don't make sense, but if she goes back and reads them she can see errors
- Phonics seem to be poor, she passed phonics test but barely... I see a marked difference in her phonics ability to her brothers (3 years younger)
- Seems to sight read, will often guess a word and not always correct it if it doesn't make sense in the sentence
- disorganised in general
- Found it hard to learn telling the time, only got the hang of it in the last year
- naturally creative / musical / sporty
- her dad is dyslexic
- low self esteem ( working on this with her)
Is all this enough to constitute investigations, or does she just need a bit more assistance? Spoke to school teacher today about helping her with some maths / spelling / sentence structure stuff which sparked these thoughts...