A dyslexia question?

Question

My friend has been saying to me she might be dyslexic. Sometimes at a quick glance she reads letters in the word that aren't there. For example in cow, at a quick glance she'd read it cowu, or something to that effect. Is this a sign of dyslexia? She wants to know before she talks to her mom/doctor about it.

Answer 1

After having taught for 23 years, I tend to believe that nearly everyone has some form of dyslexia because absolutely no one is perfect every time.  Words are sometimes injected into sentences that aren't there... as well as additional letters.  If your friend is doing well in school, any dyslexic tendencies she has is not interfering with hear learning.  On the other hand, if she's constantly struggling, it's time to mention it to her mom and perhaps have her tested by an school psychologist.

Answer 2

From what I have been told, its called phonemic paraphasia..my daughter and I have it. For us, its hereditary. For us, if we see snakes...we'll say snakes....On top of that..it came with auditory processing disorder....you friend needs to get tested...

Answer 3

Georgie, everything yo usaid, hits the nail on the head with my son. But the darn schools here along with the school board has told is, people "out grow" it. Which I know & feel in my heart is a bunch of bull!

See my husband is severely dyslexic, & I had a bery strong feeling that our son would be too. (You know when you have a gut feeling, you always go with it).

But for the past 3 years we've been homeschooling him, because of his dyslexia, & also the fact he's on a feeding pump, every 3 hours, it was either go up there every 3 hours to hook him up, & watch him, or school him at home. We chose to homeshcool him, he's alot happier, & calmer now too. Plus, since we've been working our butts off with his dyslexia & man is he doing so much better.

I let him pick out what he wants to learn, & he picks out what books he likes too. His grades went from D's & F's to A's & B's.

Do whatever you can to get her tested, yo unever know what it could be, either way she sounds like she could have a learning disablitiy

Answer 4

It is possible. It is call insertion. That when you insert letters or words that are not there.  I did that and I'm dyslexic. She may want to get tested for dyslexia.

Answer 5

it's called persistance of vision, the same way that your brain sees motion in a series of still pictures moving in rapid succession. Her brain is trying to make sense of something blurred and it's coming up with the wrong answer. It's probably not dislexia, dislexics see letters in random orders while they're focusing on the word.

Answer 6

A doctor or optometrist (unless specifically trained) can not diagnose dyslexia, a educational psychologist or a specially trained person can diagnose dyslexia, by doing a full comprehensive assessment. Which includes reading, writing, spelling, maths, social skills, communication skills etc.

Dyslexia can affect people differently, and it is not unusual that a dyslexic will skip letters or insert letters when trying to read. Spelling is equally hard for the dyslexic, especially similar sounding words

My daughter and I are both dyslexic, while we can read it is with difficulty, my daughter reads a little better than I, but she has problems with writing (dysgraphia), we both have huge problems with maths (dyscalculia).

My daughter has the Irlens lenses which helps her heaps, I use coloured overlays. We also have a lot of other things that helps us heaps, such as having class notes/handouts and assignments on coloured paper, which helps with reading a little (a cream or light blue). We rely heavily on spell check, and use computer programs to help with reading and writing if needed.