Does anyone know of the "proper" age that Dyslexia can be diagnosed? My DS7 has dyspraxia and we have been concerned lately about possible dyslexia. His handwriting is horrible along with his spelling which has been attributed to his dyspraxia. Lately though I have been seeing more than just letter/number reversals, I am now seeing whole words written backwards. When I speak to him about this he says that is the way he "sees it in his brain" and he gets really upset whenever someone points out that a letter/number is backwards - he KNOWS what the letter/number is supposed to look like and to him when he writes it, he says in his head it looks correct.
Then this week, I did a county assessment on him to help me prepare for our upcoming meeting tomorrow where we are trying to open the door for grade acceleration. The child is basically asked to read a passage in one minute and the score is based on how many words he read in that minute..then there is a section for comprehension. DS7 is supposed to go into 2nd next year.
He went past the required benchmarks for both end of 2nd,end of 3rd grade and end of 4th grade. Then I got confused...he read both the 5th and 6th grade passages just fine and on one asked to keep reading it past the timer because he got interested in it. He almost made the end of the year benchmarks for both - just missed them by a few points but he read the entire passage, scored passing on the comprehension, but just because he didn't read enough words per minute it is not considered "mastery" which I don't understand. He is getting speech services, so I know his speech slows him down and when I asked him to read another 6th grade passage silently to himself in that one minute time - his words per minute doubled and he still scored passing on comprehension. My husband and I talked about this and to us we would consider this mastery because I don't know many 6th graders who go around reading passages out loud...all of us read silently...so should it matter that he reads slower orally than he does silently when the comprehension is completely there? Is reading out loud an issue that could go along with dyslexia?
Last edited by Belle; 05/13/10 09:51 PM.
