Dyslexia poss if a good reader ?
My son aged 7 writes a number of letters the wrong way round and will even do school work upside down. The teacher has suggested we take him to our GP he reads very well , well above his age...Is it possible to have a type of Dyslexia but read really well..
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Dyslexia is where the brain misinterprets what it sees or hears, and dyslexia can affect all aspects of learning, reading, writing, spelling, maths, memory, sequencing skills, reversal of letters, p, q, b, d, m, w, and some numbers, transposing of words such as was to saw, omitting words and difficulty pronouncing words, especially unfamiliar words, and confusion between left & right and difficulty reading maps etc.
Or they may have only one area of difficulty, such as Dysgraphia, where the persons hand writing is very messy, words can be a mix of capitol and lower case letters, words can be squashed together or to widely spaced, spelling difficulty and some letters such as b, d, p, q, m, w etc are reversed.
Or Dyscalculia which causes difficulty grasping math concepts, struggle to do multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, fractions, formulas, confuses math symbols and remembering times tables. Numbers can be reversed or transposed 519 might look like 915 or 17 looks like 71, 9 & 3 might look like an 8 etc.
You doctor cannot test for a LD or dyslexia, only a qualified specialist in dyslexia can test specifically for dyslexia. Most optometrists & Educational Psychologists (EP) cannot test for dyslexia either, unless they are specially trained & accredited as such, so you will need to ask.
Do have you sons hearing & vision checked to ensure there is no problems. And then speak to your doctor about having your son assessed by a EP, I think may need a referral from you GP. Or you can have your son tested privately through Davis correction centre or Irlens clinician.
My daughter and I have dyslexia, and my daughter can read very well, but her hand writing, spelling and maths etc are greatly affected. Where as I can read, but with a little difficulty, however I can write very well, with a little difficulty with spelling, and maths etc are also affected.
Sometimes reading becomes the issue with children and other times children with visual perceptual issues, visual-motor integration issues and/or visual spatial issues have difficulties with math. Because your son is demonstrating some of these (which can be developmental), I would have your son evaluated by his school. Getting information about all of the areas I mentioned as well as his overall learning potential or general cognitive ability could give you and his teachers some insight in how to best support him in school. Also, sometimes kids cope well with comprehension and have trouble with word attack and that is not really noticed until they are older. Evaluating now could only provide you with information and what could be better than that. I would also want them to look at phonological skills just to be on the safe side. This would be through a special education, multidisciplinary evaluation or through RtI depending on your school system. Ask your child's teacher or in the front office and they will be able to point you in the right direction.
hmm, it's possible, but generally students with Dyslexia are poor readers because the letter are seen in opposite form. I would get him evaluated.