IDENTIFYING DYSLEXIA IN CHILDREN

Dyslexia presents so many issues for children, both inside and outside of school. Thankfully, there are lots of supports available, as well as awareness around how to manage this as a family.

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So many of us parents fret over the development of our children. It’s a natural yet stressful part of raising a little one. Reading is a fundamental skill that parents are told to focus on, as it feeds into so many more growth milestones. Lots of children find reading tricky in the beginning but if you sense that your young reader is struggling more than is usual, it might be the case that they have dyslexia.

Dyslexia impacts a child's abilities in a few different ways, the foremost of which is their ability to read. It also presents challenges around making and understanding sounds. Therefore, their comprehension of language can suffer. It’s important to note that dyslexia is not a sign that a little one is less intelligent. It's more like a translation issue where things get tangled up moving from the internal (their mind) to the external (reading or speaking). Undiagnosed and unsupported, a child with dyslexia will begin to fall behind their classmates before long. So, let's take a closer look at this condition and what ways you can help.

INDICATIONS OF DYSLEXIA

Dyslexia is often misunderstood in society - at best the understanding of it is quite narrow. Sometimes it's reduced to the idea that children with dyslexia “can’t spell” but there is so much more to it than that.

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