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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, you might not get many examples because this is the special needs section - we end up here because things didn't work out without intervention! But honestly, of course lots of late readers learn to read perfectly without intervention! But they probably didn't have dyslexia. A dyslexic kid isn't going to stop being dyslexic (even after they've learned to read. Its a brain-structure issue). So the question is how to tell kids who are just late readers from those with dyslexia. And the answer is with an assessment, done as early as possible. If there are no deficits causing the slowness in learning to read, all is good and the kid can take as much time as he/she needs. But if there are deficits the assessment will identify them and the learning can begin.

You might call me a "wait and see" that worked. I didn't learn to read until late second grade, and I somehow learned by memorizing the shapes of words. I actually was a speed reader by high school because I could take it the shape of whole chunks of text at once. But I couldn't spell even simple words and couldn't do rote memorization. But I'm still dyslexic, and my options for careers would have been wider if I had gotten help as a child to teach me some skills for dealing with my deficits.[/quote]

PP here. Thank you for sharing. My question was somewhat rhetorical. The reason for posting here and not in a general education forum was to elicit views from parents or family members of kids with SN/LDs as well as NT or mainstreamed kids.

Personally, as a parent of both NT and SN children, I think the the "wait and see/don't worry" line of thinking is a cop out from a lack of training for parents and educators.

I'm trying to keep an open mind, but I figured this forum would be a good place to start.[/quote]

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