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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter was slow to learn to read.  She currently has a diagnosis of dyslexia and I pay for private OG therapy outside of school in addition to the support she gets in school through special education. She is in 4th grade.

HOWEVER, she showed a pattern of learning difficulties from as early as preschool.  Couldn't identify all her letters going into Kindergarten, couldn't memorize sight words (she would look at the last letter and then just guess a word that started with that letter), couldn't rhyme, etc. Eventually, we noticed a distinct difference in her decoding vs encoding.  She could LOOK at the word pig, for example, and say "pig."  But if I asked her to spell the word, she had no idea.  She'd say letters that had nothing to do with the word. This is when it became apparent (around 1st grade) that she was starting to survive by memorizing.  We had her evaluated mid 2nd grade when the spelling didn't catch up to her perceived reading progress like the school kept telling me it would.

All this to say, if everything else seems okay and this is the first "red flag" you've seen, I'd be more inclined to say wait a bit.  But if you've had any sort of nagging feeling that something's off for awhile now, I'd say go with your gut and start looking for more data from the school and possible evaluation.

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I disagree. Dyslexia exists on a continuum and what is the harm in evaluating earlier? The harm in evaluating later is potentially huge. Those with milder dyslexia also survive by memorizing, in my experience, but it doesn't mean they don't need intervention as early as possible.[/quote]

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