Dyslexia, reading and 9 yo ds

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My DS likely has dyslexia. School have advised we will need to pay for formal diagnosis but following various tests and outside speech and languages assessments they are confident.

My DS has very poor reading and spelling.
Up until now reading hasn’t been very interesting. We’ve used comics etc to try to ignite a desire to read.
This week my ds said he looks forward to being able to read one day because he thinks he will really enjoy reading.

Does anyone have any advice? I don’t know how to help him and help him feel included.

Have you tried Barrington stoke books?
I was a!so recommend by someone on here about "custom eye books"
www.guidedogs.org.uk

My 9 year old ds is dyslexic and has found these much easier to manage.
He's Harry potter fanatic and upset that he couldn't access the books , custom eyes made a dyslexic friendly one, he chose the font, page colour, word and line spacing he found the best and then they print it😀
Highly recommended.
Does he listen to audio book s?

Thank you for your reply.

His sister asked for a kindle, she’s a avid reader so I’ve bought two and hoping this will help make a longer booker spaced bigger and help him not feel overwhelmed and give a sense of achievement when he completes a page of text.

He does like audiobooks actually.

Would it help to mix audio and reading a hard copy?

Something else to try? Give your son a pile of very, very easy books to read. The challenge is to see how many he can read in, say 10 minutes. He could set a timer.

If he doesn't know a word, he asks you and you give him the answer straight away - no working out the word! It's useful if you are in the same room - he gets a very quick answer then.

He could have a notebook where he writes the date and how many books he's read. The next time he tries it, he could have the same books and see if he can beat what he did before. It's fun!

Over time the easiest books are not used and new ones are added. As the books get longer, he would just count the number of pages.
The key is making sure that he can read practically all the words.

You might have to join the library or get the school to give you books!!

Thank you. I will try this.