Is this dyslexia?

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My daughter is in Y11 and about to take her GCSEs. She’s pretty good academically, predicted 7s and 8s but as she’s been revising she keeps asking me about the spelling of simple words like “put” and will ask whether it starts with a p or b. She has to think quite carefully before writing it, although she has no problem with more complicated words. She also struggles with g and j.

It has never been flagged as a problem by her school and I’ve never noticed anything before, although she isn’t an avid reader like her sisters.

She’s going to be starting A levels in September - should I look into this or am I worrying over nothing?

Hey, I'm someone who grow up with dyslexia, was probably in the first cohort of people who got diagnose in school.

Looking back its has always been a benefit to be diagnose. Although without the proper guidance, which the schools I attended where not able to give me I did end up leaning on it a bit to much as an excuse.

That being said getting older having the diagnoses I am better equipped to understand where I fit in the world. Nowadays I can use modern tech to augment the elements of dyslexic that are negative (I recommend speechify and audible, also gramaily although its a little pricey and the free chat gpt is a good alternative.) whilst also understanding where a dyslexics brain is more likely to excel, maths, pattern recognition, graph theory, plotting data to charts, data science, programming and op sec (which is my feild) :) hope this helps.

Thanks both for your reply - she has spoken to her tutor at sixth form to see if there is some learning support she can access, although I suspect it might be quicker to get a private assessment.

interesting to read about where the dyslexic brain excels - she’s definitely a maths and science person!