According to the 1994 report given by the National Institute of Health, one in five children have dyslexia!
If traditional reading instruction is not working for your child, there is a good chance that your child may have dyslexia. Here are some things to look for:
• Dyslexia is genetic. If someone in your family struggled with reading, it may have been dyslexia
• People with dyslexia are intelligent! To even be diagnosed with dyslexia, your child has to have an average to above average intelligence.
• Rhyming may be a problem. One of the early warning signs of dyslexia is when a child struggles to hear the rhyming sounds in words.
• Phonics can be very difficult. Many children with dyslexia really struggle with "sounding out" words.
• Is your child skipping or adding words or letters while reading? This can also be quite common in children with dyslexia
• May struggle with spelling.
• Often struggle with handwriting.
• Have difficulty copying words from the board or a page.
• Many students with dyslexia also have ADD or ADHD.
If your child demonstrates some or all of the above warning signs, it is a great idea to get this checked out. Excel Achievement Center does a free dyslexia screen. This is not a diagnosis (although we do that too), but it is a quick way just to see if perhaps dyslexia is the problem.
For more warning signs of dyslexia, please visit our website at www.excelachievement.com.
What can be done?
Fortunately, dyslexia is very treatable. Excel Achievement's dyslexia intervention has 20 years of solid research behind it. Please give us a call at 605-988-0900 to find out more on how we can help your child.
