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Red Flags of a Reading Disorder

Parents are all too often told that you cannot diagnose a reading disability or dyslexia until the third grade. Actually, that is not the case, and the earlier a reading problem is detected, the quicker you can put appropriate intervention strategies into place. Red flags to watch out for in the early years of reading are:

•They are not consistently recognizing common sight words.

•They have difficulty hearing all the sounds in a word.

•They recognize a word on one page but not on another.

•Naming and writing all the letters in the alphabet is not yet automatic,

and may be slow and labored.

•Confuses similarly spelled words such as then/ than, on/one, was/saw.

•Has difficulty remembering the spelling of familiar words with

irregular spellings.

•There is a lack of properly spacing between words when writing and

perhaps they cannot manage to write a complete word on a line.

•There is an issue with directionality, i.e., confusing front/back,

right/left.

•Interchanges words like saying ‘in’ for ‘end’ or ‘pass’ for ‘past.’

School-based assessments are limited in scope, focusing only on academic skills. When children are struggling to read and learn, this isn’t enough. We administer a detailed assessment that looks for weak processing skills in the areas of auditory and visual processing, word retrieval fluency, attention, and executive functioning. Then we develop a remediation plan that attacks the problem at the root cause!

Academic Intervention