Nancy Young

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There are various reasons for this.

So not all children with dyslexia are the same.

And so our instruction needs to zero in on what is particular for that child, even if they have a diagnosis of dyslexia.

And it's important for parents to understand that you don't need a diagnosis of dyslexia.

If your child is having difficulty, what we need is to provide what the indications are that they are struggling with because it's often hard to get a diagnosis.

But we do know based on certain assessments that are very easy for a teacher to give that

indications as to where that support might be needed.

And then parents, I really recommend working collaboratively with the school.

So if the school finds that there's a certain need in a certain area because of difficulty learning to read, parents learn what the school is doing and then the parents can do the same thing at home.

Often what happens is parents are doing something different with the best of intentions

Teachers are doing something different with the best of intentions.

But for a child who's having difficulty when you do things differently, it just can compound the problem.

Some children with dyslexia take longer, have more difficulty discerning the sounds in words.

So if you take a word like bat, breaking bat into b-a-t,

Children with dyslexia have more difficulty.

Difficulty breaking it up.

Yeah, breaking it up or perhaps identifying the T in bat.

And then if you changed it to bad, it's harder for them to recognize those sounds and separate them.

So they might need more instruction.