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You can have a Dyslexia Screener and Comprehensive Literacy Assessment completed. The cost is much less than a full evaluation.

I think we noticed the non-reading things first (our DD did avoid reading but loved to be read to). She had a hard time with left vs right, telling time on a clock, time in general, tying shoes, forgetting what things were called, and ability to follow multi-step directions.

she is in HS and I am not sure she gets left vs right still. But is a A student

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Anonymous wrote:Flipping letters is no a sign or symptom of dyslexia. Your child sounds like a typical early reader who just needs more practice.

It is a sign of dyslexia, just not a sensitive one, i.e., a lot of kids who do not have dyslexia flip letters. But many, if not most, kids who have dyslexia do flip letters.

No it isnt. https://www.thedyslexiaclassroom.com/blog/is-there-a-link-between-reversals-and-dyslexia

Anonymous wrote:Flipping letters is no a sign or symptom of dyslexia. Your child sounds like a typical early reader who just needs more practice.

It is a sign of dyslexia, just not a sensitive one, i.e., a lot of kids who do not have dyslexia flip letters. But many, if not most, kids who have dyslexia do flip letters.

Flipping letters is no a sign or symptom of dyslexia. Your child sounds like a typical early reader who just needs more practice.

Anonymous wrote:The downside for many is that they don’t have a spare 4k to throw around

I know this doesn’t work for everyone, but we had testing done through the school, so it was free.

I had suspected dyslexia since my child turned 4…. Was finally identified & got an IEP in 3rd grade. She’s also gifted and was quite good at compensating, like so many kids are. But there were definite signs of a problem, too.

From your description, OP, it’s hard to say. Some kids aren’t ready to fully read in 2nd grade, or there might be an LD. I’d ask the school to test. You can always seek outside testing if you feel they don’t do an adequate job.

I don't think dyslexia always presents in one particular way. Our child has orthographic dyslexia and she has good decoding/phonemic awareness and can nail nonsense words. But her reading is slow and she had trouble with sight words. She'd see the word "could" on a page 4 times and each time act like it was the first time she ever saw it. The whole thing was confusing and the result was we kept waiting and waiting and the school kept thinking things were fine. She was getting straight As (but she's 2e). But she kept getting flagged in DIBELS. And as kids started really making jumps in reading from 3rd to 4th grade, that's when the gap really came, but really only through the testing. As a parent, it's hard to tell. You don't have 1000 kids lined up in front of you to compare their reading abilities. Did your child take the DIBELS assessments at school and how were those? I would see if you can find specific reading testing for $500 and do that, just so you know. As others have said, early intervention can be very important. I feel like we lost a lot by not figuring this out until 4th grade.

OP, I'm the parent of the dyslexic kid with the syllable and consonant blend flipping.

I highly recommend these books ...

https://portal.flyleafpublishing.com/learners-resources/

if your kid is doing well with phonics, you could try starting with part 7, 8, 9 or 10. Pearl Learns a Lesson is relatively involved..

We bribe for reading every single day, and that's how my kid learned to read. I think your kid should be able to read out loud for 10 minutes, but hopefully you can find a book she likes to make it somewhat less painful. Does she like Junie B Jones? Have you seen King and Kayla?

Agree with getting the testing. Also on the chance she is dyslexic pls be gentle with the reading out aloud until you know if she is dyslexic. If she is, the struggle is very real and very anxiety producing. Let her learn methods to decode before pushing reading. Read all you can to her. I wish I would have been a bit more gentle with the trying to read before my child had appropriate instruction.

Just pay for the testing, otherwise you are guessing.

I say this as a parent who has been there: there are many indications of dyslexia but you cannot know for sure until you get her tested. Either way, taking more time won’t help. The sooner you have answers the better it will be for her and you.

All I can say from experience is that Covid academic lags, teachers saying DC was on grade level, and adhd made us question if DC had dyslexia for two years and when DC was finally tested and diagnosed with dyslexia I wished we had not waited as long as we did.

Op here. This is all very helpful. Here are a few details

-ok with nonsense words if she has all the time in the world and I make her trace her finger under the words.

-often skips words and reverses them (saw for was/ pot for top). But only reverses ‘b’ and ‘d’. Doesn’t confuse p, g or other letters. And can do b and d when she concentrates.

-when she reads out loud, she rushes and seems anxious. Wouldn’t attempt magic treehouse without lots of bribes and negotiation. We settle at her reading the first paragraph of every chapter.

—teacher says she’s on grade level. Ended on grade level in 1st. Missed standardized texting this year due to Covid so didn’t get standardized test data for reading.

Has adhd and low processing speed (25%) but scored high in all other areas in neuropsyche testing. We weren’t thinking about dyslexia then so didn’t focus on it in the report.

Rhyming facility doesn't necessarily mean they don't have dyslexia. (My kid had no trouble rhyming)
My kid who has dyslexia couldn't read nonsense words at all; but also had a lot more 'flipping' than just 'd and b' (which is a common error for many kids without LDs).

Signs for me: kid flipped whole syllables when reading aloud, (suhband for husband), letters moved around on the kid while reading (pol as plo or vice versa, rats as rast or vice versa); kid almost always skipped 'and' and 'the' when reading aloud.

I do think a lot of second graders aren't ready for solid blocks of text. But will your kid do a Magic Treehouse book? What if you alternated you reading aloud a page and her reading aloud a page? Lack of reading stamina was a huge thing in our house. (Which can also be ADD related)

I'm the college parent mom a few posts back. And I'll give another endorsement for Susan Barton. Mine did 5-6 years of tutoring with a Barton tutor starting in 2nd grade.

Second for Susan Barton! Watch all her videos, I love her compassion and dedication to the cause and her videos are very helpful.