I tutor English online as a second language and have a bright 11 yo student who has difficulty reading and often mixes up her letters, eg 'dark' will be said as 'drak', or even 'to' can be read as 'ot'. We used to read texts on the screen but I've started sending it through before the lesson so she can print it off, but this hasn't helped much. My next step is to change the font to a sans serif one to see if that helps.
She's in China and so I have to take into account the fact that it's a second language and that she is reading a different alphabet etc. But at this stage and age, I would expect these to not be issues. Unfortunately in China learning difficulties like dyslexia aren't recognised so I don't know that this would have been picked up in school there or if it presents as an issue the same way as with languages that use the Arabic alphabet.
Also I'm not an expert in this in any way, other than a general awareness of the issues and what I have just read on the BDA. Anyway, I wanted to do some kind of screening with her to see if this was an issue but can only find paid ones. I want to do it in more of a low-key way at first and if it looks like there may be something to address, I may be able persuade the parents to have a proper assessment, albeit online.
Can anyone point me in a direction to do this please? Thanks.