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Symptoms of Dyslexia
Grades 1 to 2
At
this stage, children are developing basic word recognition skills both
through the use of word attack strategies and contextual cues.
Success in these grades depends on the ability to decode and
encode.
What
our clients have been told:
"Read to them more at
home"
"They're too young to be tested"
"They're behind, but don't worry"
"Have you had their eyes and ears checked?"
"Lets wait and see what happens next year"
What
you
should look for:
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Continued
difficulties with learning letter- symbol correspondences
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Confusion
of visually similar letters (b/d/p, w/m, h/n, f/t)
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Confusion
of letters that sound the same (d/t, b/p, f/v)
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Difficulties
remembering basic sight vocabulary
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Problems
with segmenting words into individual sounds and blending
sounds to form words
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Reading
and spelling errors that involve difficulties with sequencing
and monitoring letter - sound correspondence such as reversals
of letters (past/pats), omissions (tip/trip), additions
(slip/sip), substitutions (rip/rib), and transpositions
(stop/pots)
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Omission
of grammatical endings in reading and/or writing (-s, -ed, -ing,
etc.)
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Difficulty
remembering spelling words over time and applying spelling
rules
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Extremely
slow in written work
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Cannot
work independently
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Produces
messy papers with uneven letters, out of line numbers, and
multiple erasures
Homework
assignments take much longer than peers
Call DIA for a solution that works
1-877-DIA-READ
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