Dyslexia Assessment South West

• Difficulty orally blending sounds
• Difficulty making the link between sounds and letters
• Difficulty reading nonsense words and making expected progress with phonics
• Difficulty retaining learning and needing lots of repetition
• Difficulty maintaining concentration and seeming to lose focus or daydream
• Spelling is overly phonetic and relies on how a word sounds. Irregular words such as 'said' are often misspelt
• Written work is not reflective of the general verbal skills or understanding they show across the curriculum

Secondary School Age (in addition to the above)

• Difficulty reading and writing at an expected speed for their age
• Difficulty keeping up with the speed of teacher instruction
• Difficulty transferring the ideas they have in their head to the page
• Increased frustration with the reading and writing process
• Impact on self-esteem and interest in reading and writing
• Difficulty keeping up with the amount of reading and writing expected in lessons
• Homework taking an excessive amount of time to complete
• Exhaustion by the end of the school day