What age to diagnose Dyslexia?

[happymerryberries]

I'm not sure if I should be posting this on the behaviour board, if I'm in the wrong please forgive me.

Ds is 5.5 and is strugling with reading and writing. The school is very pro active and have set aside extra time for him with a TA and also they have asked the SENCO to take a look.

He has always had probelms with lauguage and had some very basic SALT at about 3. He has also been a very 'idiosyncratic' little boy, he had lots of ASD traits but is NT (some sensory issues, hand flapping, sniffing, a tendency towards repetatiove behavious but he points etc).

He has a very good memory, but is realy finding it hard to make any progress in reading. He finds it hard to sequence the letters so CAT is spoken as ATC etc.

Now I know he is very young. And I don't want to be a flapping, 'worried well' mum pain in the arse. And I'm not pussy, or wanting him to be Shakespere at his age.

Just if I could ask mums with children with dyslexia, what age did it become obvious? And what, if anything, should I be looking out for? Half of me wants him to run round and play, and half knows that early intervention can be helpful.

Help please.

He isn't showing the symptoms of long sight....or short for that matter. I'm exceptionaly short sighted so I wouldn't be surprised if he inherited it from me....dd has. But atm he seems fine.

I'll keep an eye on it though (no pun intended )

I should have said when I first posted that they thought I had some sort of mild dyslexia but what they actually discovered, is that I had some problem with my eyes so that when I finished one line of words, I couldn't move down to the next line and would skip a few lines. It also meant that sometimes, I skipped words as my eyes jumped. I cannot remember what is was called but it was related to the fact that I was born with a squint (but I had already had it surgically corrected).

I suppose it's worth getting his eyes checked just in case it's something else.