What is Dyslexia & Signs

Dyslexia is a learning disability, which primarily expresses itself as difficulty learning to read. It is a phonological processing disorder, which means some people have a hard time distinguishing and ordering letter, vowel, consonant team and vowel team sounds to form words and read fluently while comprehending. It can affect a person’s ability to speak, read and spell. Dyslexia is a prevalent learning disability, affecting 20 percent of the population. Though Dyslexia cannot be cured, this lifelong condition can be improved through structured literacy, intensive writing and spelling help from professionals like myself who use evidence-based Orton-Gillingham curriculum to remediate reading, spelling and writing skills.

Some common signs of Dyslexia include: difficulty writing full name, difficulty writing ABCs in order, difficulty learning ABC song, days of the week, months of the year, difficulty learning nursery rhymes. Often puts shoes on the wrong feet and/or put clothes on backward, difficulty rhyming, mispronouncing familiar words, difficulty reading, difficulty/inability sounding out words, difficulty associating letters with sounds, letter reversals, often guesses at familiar looking words, trouble remembering dates.