What Is Dyslexia And What Are The Symptoms?

Dyslexia is one of the most common learning difficulties - and as a parent it can feel very overwhelming if you suspect or know your child has it.

00:20 - What dyslexia is
01:27 - Signs of dyslexia
02:48 - Identifying and testing for dyslexia
04:04 - How dyslexia is dealt with by schools, teachers and requesting EHCPs
05:25 - Emotional wellbeing of dyslexic children
06:23 - Ways to help a dyslexic child

#Dyslexia has no bearing on intelligence - it is just a set of weaknesses in how you learn.

With thanks to Helen Boden from the British Dyslexia Association and John Hicks.

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[Mumsnet]

What was your experience of discovering you or your child was dyslexic? Any advice you'd give others?

[loliknow.]

For myself diagnosed with dyslexic i never said to myself i am dyslexic and don't make any excuses to not learn..
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I love to read books even though not easy to read it takes me 6 months to read a book.
I always said to myself this stuff is just small thing and i can cope with it. After that i able to write in alphabetical order sometimes issues happend then i ask my team to correct it.
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I learn through music, and visual... Being dyslexic is not easy at the childhood phase and now i am 21 years old and a leader to a business group that teaches many people about business even though i sometimes i can't speak so well but i always keep learning.
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Thanks for being dyslexic i can think differently from normal people.

[rubymaeroblox]

I don’t read slow I read fast but I always have to read it again bc I don’t understand what I read and sometimes I forget the words of stuff and what they mean like this actually happend one day at the fair my friend said she wanted a hot dog and I said “whats a hot dog” also my ilearn test they all was below procifety witch is really bad the school put me in the special class for math just for like a week bc I didn’t understand one thing we was doing in math but when I was younger the school made me have 2 years of preschool because I didn’t Understand the alphabet so I couldn’t really talk well and then in K-2nd grade I had to be in special classes for speech and reading and with homework omg I JUST honestly I always need my mom/grandma to help me my mom laws reads it for me then she helps me understand it and idk if this is apart of dyslexia but when I’m trying to read it hurts my brain and I get so frustrated … do I have dyslexia?

[plant_mrs]

My parents think i dont learn anything at school…. Only because i dont remember the words, or because i spell it wrong

[gospeltracks]

I'm just looking at a yellow teeth 😂