Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Can speech/hearing eval catch dyslexia?

My DD19, had speech and language issues and saw a speech and language specialist from 2 year till she was 7. We used the fact that she was already getting tested for her speech & language to have the school test for her LD in 2nd grade. The school psychologist was the one who did these tests rather than the speech therapist. And it wasn't till I went to an outside specialist did we got the detailed information that ended up helping.

I suppose it's possible the speech & language therapist could give you a baseline. I do remember having the WISC administered quite young by the speech therapist. I'm just not sure this is really worth it unless having the speech therapist eval is enough to convince school to do the rest of the eval. Otherwise you will find yourself testing twice.

As to the spelling issues? I am a horrible speller and this sounds like exactly what I would do. I still to this day can't spell scissors without the help of the spell checker. And I am horrible about pronouncing words. I have always attributed this to my being a whole word reader, I taught myself to read very young and no one worried about a problem since I always read way above grade level. It never occurred to me that it could be a form of dyslexia but I suppose it's likely.