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      Could It Be Dyslexia?




      By Jim Forgan, Ph.D.,                              were worse off students in her class. Julie did not want   effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences
      Licensed School                                    to settle for OK and knew that her son’s struggles were   may include problems in reading comprehension and
      Psychologist                                       real. While he enjoyed when she read to him, he resisted,   reduced reading experience that can impede growth of
        Dyslexia is a type of                            read slowly, and became squirmy when it was his turn   vocabulary and background knowledge.”
      reading learning disability                        to read. The testing showed he met the dyslexia criteria     This means to test for dyslexia your child’s testing
      that affects one out of five                       and she felt relieved to have confirmation about what her   must include a test of phonological processing. There
      children. Julie brought her                        motherly instinct told her. She hired a specialized reading   is not one definitive dyslexia test so your child needs to
      7-year-old  son  in  because                       tutor and now her son is on his way to overcoming his   take a battery of tests which includes reading real and
      her instinct told her he was                       dyslexia.                                         made-up words, reading speed, reading comprehension,
      behind in reading.  The                              Dyslexia is more than reversing letters and numbers.   spelling real and made-up words, and many others.
      classroom teacher told her                         The International Dyslexia Association defines dyslexia     Consider dyslexia testing if you believe your child has
      he was doing OK and there                          as,  “Dyslexia  is  a  specific  learning  disability  that is   three or more warning signs. The younger your child is
                                                         neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties   when you confirm dyslexia and start specialized reading
                                                                                                           instruction, the better the outcome. We have offices in
                                                         with accurate and/or fluent  word  recognition  and  by
        Pet Diagnostics                                  poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties   Jupiter and Stuart so call us at (561) 625-4125 or visit
                                                         typically result from a deficit in the  phonological
                                                                                                           JimForgan.com.
                                                         component of language that is often unexpected in
        By Dr. Romina Scorteanu                          relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of
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