My eight-year-old was diagnosed with dyslexia just a few weeks ago. I just spoke with a tutor who assured me that the absolute best thing for her is to be homeschooled! I kept thinking about three years ago when we warily stepped into homeschool; God knew this day was coming! His perfect plan for her was already in place.
I just wanted to share incase it could help someone else.... My son is dyslexic and I read the book The Gift of Dyslexia. In there it talks about the Davis program. I was able to find a place that offers the program and it worked wonders for my son! After the program he blew through 2 levels of All About Reading in one school year! It was such a blessing for us!
Going through this right now with my 8 year old. This video brought me so much relief because we have nearly the same exact story and signs. What’s even more amazing is that we landed on the exact same 2 curriculums, All About Reading and Sonlight. She’s making progress it’s just slow. It’s been an emotional ride for both of us.
Thank you for the encouragement. How can we encourage our reluctant, disheartened kids? My 8 year old sees her younger sibling "passing" her in reading and has started to show a lot of emotion and defiance when coming to the table to do reading and math lessons. She knows she's "behind" her younger sibling and is greatly discouraged.
my daughter is 8 and she is a kindergarten level in reading. she struggles so so hard with dyslexia but we slowly make progress even tho some days all that progress goes out the window. ... it makes me so sad to see how it effects her life not just reading and I wish more people knew it doesn't just effect reading she also has adhd soooo there's never a dull moment with her around.
My 3rd grade daughter has dyslexia, and I can feel what you’re trying to say in the depths of my soul! We started tutoring (nothing super fancy as the prices are outrageous) in June and she has had so much growth! All About Reading was basically a joke for us in first and second grade (although highly recommended) until she could get some working memory and skills under her belt. It would probably work for her now, although I find Abeka to be working well surprisingly, bc I know it’s not OG. I think their use of drilling consonant blends has really helped her. It was so painful, and still can be, to listen to her work so so so hard on just a few sentences. We just want things to be easy for our children. The name Sam could have been in a book 45 times and she still had to sound it out on the 45th time. It’s exhausting for their little minds ya know. But unfortunately, the consistently and rigorous lessons are really what creates the most growth in my opinion. You’ve done great with him megan! I’ve been a long time subscriber and I remember your pride lesson video and when you got CLE learning to read. He’s come a long way! He should be proud of his accomplishments and hard work and YOU should also be proud, of not only him, but yourself and your love and devotion to help him, with the Lords help of course! 😉 ❤️
The whole see the word 45 times and still forget it....that was oldest. She is 15 now and reading not at her level yet but reading middle grade chapter books. She still sometimes gets b and ds wrong. There are still struggles, but her dyslexia tutor says it will always kinda be that way.
I haven’t even watched the whole video yet. I’m in tears . I need help. It was a rough day today going over his IEP at school. I really am thinking of homeschooling him. He is in 4th grade and reading at a 1st grade level.
I'm so thankful I came across your video. This helped me so much. I am divorced and also a prior elementary teacher (I have a doctor of education and now teach doctoral students). Both my children struggle so much with letters, phonemes, processing information, and after even having a university test my oldest they even said he's adhd and dyslexic but their dad says it is all in my head. It's beyond frustrating to hit brick walls daily and not see many gains. I've never had to work so hard to teach concepts in my entire life. Thank you for sharing, as well as all the other moms who commented. It helps to know I am not alone.
When you said one week things go so well you think they got it and you get excited and then the next week it's all gone, brought tears to my eyes. We're just wrapping up a tough week. I never let him see me upset but it's weeks like this when things are tough that I start to question everything I am doing and all of those naysayers, who question whether if I should be homeschooling a dyslexic kid, start creeping into my brain. Thankfully my husband is 100% behind me, but I agree it is tough. I have one kiddos where school comes easy so to see my dyslexic son work so hard and struggle is hard. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for sharing! Is there any way you’d be willing to do a follow up? How the progress has gone being more independent, silent reading, and does this affect spelling (if so how to help with that)? There’s not a huge amount of newer information people are sharing, willing to share, and we can all use as much help as we can get.
Thank you so much for this. This has been my exact experience with my daughter. She is artistic, excellent at Math and able to play the piano but teaching her to read has been impossible. I guess I’m catching her dyslexia relatively early because I taught my older six kids to read with ease before they even started kindergarten. We used hooked on phonics. My second son was reading at 3 1/2 and was reading chapter books by the time he was five. My seven year old daughter has at times fooled me into thinking she can read because she has an excellent memory and will recite back passages to me after reading through them once or twice. I had forgotten that I had had difficulty teaching her colors until you mentioned that, rhyming words have been impossible for her to learn and normally rhyming words are so easy for little kids and sounding out words and spelling words seems to go well after a ton of effort one day only to be completely lost the next day.
I am crying right now, because I thought i must be such a bad teacher… your descriptions and experiences are so familiar. I am going to get my child tested- but this makes so much sense. I spent over an hour trying to help her remember four sequential numbers, only to have her forget the next day. It was not normal. She is a smart girl, but it is totally a processing thing that gets us so stuck. Thank you for sharing!!!
My 10 years has dyslexia. We did 3 complete programs. He has worked so hard. Hooked on Phonics complete program really helped reinforce things. He can now read independently and still does need help. Thank you for this video.
Our experience mirrors this so much (10 yo son), thank you for the honest share! It’s heart-breaking yet frustrating for us mamas…let alone our children. It’s always encouraging to remember we are never alone.
Yes, it is normal for children to write their name backwards or letters backwards. It’s part of the learning process. My child never had early signs. I noticed when 5 year old brother was at the same level as my second grader. It’s gotten a lot better with daily reading and practice. Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much for this. As much as I don't want anyone else to experience the same frustrations, it is so helpful to hear that other people are going through the same thing and progressing!
This was so so helpful. My 8 year old (just finished 3rd grade) is still struggling to read & I felt SEEN hearing you talk about your experience! So many similarities to your son’s journey. I, like you, started really realizing the depth of the issue and 100% knew it was dyslexia during his 3rd grade year. It’s so hard on the kid, but also hard to go through it with them. Thank you for sharing your story!❤ I have hope.
I don't know if my babygirl has this but she is struggling. She cannot read yet and is turning 7 this year. She is getting there but has really struggled!
I am so glad you made this video!!! You turned me into pride, it has been a game changer. I'm a new homeschool mom. We are in the yellow workbook. And I agree about it being intense. I kinda had the concerns about him getting frustrated doing it with me. Like the finger tracing in your palm makes him so irritated. Thank you so I have a clue after yellow book if we don't want to continue pride where to go. Your channel has been awesome
My little girl would have trouble remembering color names and would recall them in a way that she could like “green” was “grass”, “red” was “blood”, and “blue” was “sky”. And then couldn’t do two or more step instructions at once. She would just be confused. Also if I said, “your drink is over by the microwave”, she wouldn’t know where that was because she couldn’t remember what things are called. Another thing is she would come to tell her dad or I something and would forget so she would say, “I love you”, instead. Just seems like a state of confusion often. But she’s smart and witty. Seems like there has to be a processing issue. When she’s talking to us she looks up a lot with her eyes like she’s searching to find what she’s trying to say. (This reply is all over the place but this is some of what we are experiencing, she’s 8 now. Not officially diagnosed but thinking dyslexia is possible?)
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your experience! Except for the very end of your story (when you shared how he loves math and can retell what he heard you read nearly word for word), it sounded like you were describing my oldest son down to a T. 😳 I used to think dyslexia was primarily about reading and writing letters backwards and so I dismissed the early signs of that in my oldest child. Letter names, sounds and especially blending were not sticking that I also concluded maybe he was just not ready to read yet developmentally and to simply give the process more time and patient repetition. When his younger brother began kindergarten (three years younger), I was surprised how easily he grasped concepts taught. 😳 I continued more research as we slowly made progress with my oldest, using a variety of other supplemental resources (we were using The Good and Beautiful as our primary language arts curriculum at that points . He liked it for all the color and variety of ways concepts were presented, but the learning to read aspect was still a struggle. Spent two years on just their level K! 😳 The speed at which we worked our way through level one was also thwarted by me having preemie twins born that year. As we neared the end of what should have been his third grade, I knew I needed to do something different. I decided to give AAR a try (then if not enough, try some more resources I had read about for more severely dyslexic kids.) Thankfully AAR has worked well and we managed to push through level 2 and 3 last year! 🙌🏼Though we still have a long ways to go with fluency and speed with him, I feel such a relief to see his progress! Again, was such an encouragement to hear your experience! ❤
Wow, your video was such an answer to one of my prayers! Thank you! Our journey has been very similar with my son, who is almost 7. He talked late, but had trouble with his colors too. He still confuses pink and purple on occasion, but it is because he doesn’t like those colors. Our church is small about 30 people and we’ve been there for years and he still has some days when he can’t remember peoples’ names even though they talk to him every week. Yet, he knows the names of all the dinosaurs. He has a good comprehension for audio books and TH-cam videos and loves science and animals. He can recall very specific information about stuff he watches or listens too. He seems very average and capable in math as well. Everything you described with learning the alphabet is the same with my son. One week I might think we have finally mastered all the sounds and the next week he can’t remember the names of m and n again. He has never been able to remember any basic sight words either. He is becoming more aware of his struggles and able to tell me such things like, “mom, I can’t try to read these words today because I can’t remember the sounds of the letters.” I’ve not seen a need or benefit yet of seeking a formal diagnosis. I’ve been told told by his speech teacher that his insurance would help cover tutoring costs but it requires a formal diagnosis. But I’ve always felt like during any academic testing would make his confidence even lower. His speech teacher recommended the Susan Barton Reading and Spelling Program. Are you familiar with that? Or do you know anyone who has personally been successful with it? Thank you again for the video and sharing your experience. I have felt very alone in this journey and you blest my day. God bless you and your family💕
My son struggles with sight words too. He doesn't understand rhyming. Can't for the life of him remember that Thursday comes after Wednesday. No matter how much we drill. Learning the sound that Y makes was a huge task. And there's all the letters that he "learns" and then forgets. And the words he can't seem to recall, "Mom you know the thing that we use for the thing!" Can't remember his church friends' names either. I thought he was just a reluctant reader. But there's just too many other signs that say otherwise. I considered asking the doctor for a referral to a speech pathologist last year because the amount of words that he mispronounced seemed excessive to me, but the doctor was a bit of a meanie. (We've been rotating doctors since our regular pediatrician retired early.) Anyway, I've been wondering myself if getting an official diagnosis would be of any benefit. We're in California, and they passed a new law in 2020 or 2021 where new private schools no longer receive state funding (sounds unlawful to me). So I'd be on my own anyway since we legally homeschool as a private school. BUT a dyslexia diagnosis would would make so much sense! It might be a relief for me to know where we are, and where to go from here...but I'm not too keen on having my son labeled, and tracked (that's what they do in California once you're in the system). I'll have to research more. Sorry to unload this on you. I just felt like I could relate to your comments. Yesterday I watched a "Do a lesson with us video!" and I wanted to cry watching this little girl my son's age (also a young 1st grader) successfully reading what many would considered as advanced. And here my son is struggling to understand what's going on reading - cat, mat, hat and sat words. 😢 I hope your child is doing well and enjoying learning despite the struggle. 😊
Oh and another thing! Now that I’m looking back, my daughter had the same issues with colors and letter recognition too! She also would often say “huh” when we said things to her, and still sometimes does and I wondered if there were hearing issues, there are not, but in hindsight I realize it’s the processing, just like you said!
I have 3 children with dyslexia and it was this way for all three of them. From the not getting the letters down for several years to rhyming to letter reversals, to swapping the first and last letters of the word to putting letters in the next word into the current word. Basically, if you look up the symptoms, my daughters have them all. Phonemic awareness as well. I have a 15, 12, and almost 9 year old. We have even done dyslexia tutors for my oldest, who is more profound than most.
I was so scared to homeschool at first and the first year was hard. I started with my daughter who was in kindergarten. The following year my teenage step son left public school to be homeschooled. This year I pulled my 7th grader and added my youngest. God is so gracious!! It was the best decision I have ever made!! Although I am just realizing (or am quite sure) my daughter has 2 forms of dyslexia I am so happy I am able to deal with it here in our home where there will not be so much pressure for her to compete. God knew what He was doing!! It's not as scary as it seems after a year in!! 😊
Thank you so much for sharing this!! I have a son with dyslexia and like your son he’s good with math and comprehends well. And his thinking process on things other then reading has blown my husband and i away at times. He definitely really struggles with word retrieval which I didn’t even know was a sign of dyslexia until I started reading a book about it. We definitely had a lot of similar early signs. We’ve used TGTB K LA, CLE Learning to Read and now All About Reading. We started the 100 easy lessons to read over the summer and I’m actually thinking about resuming. AAR is just not helping it doesn’t seem. With the Pride program do you have to do the 45 mins all At one sitting? My son is exhausted and yawning within 5-10 minutes of having to sit down and struggle through a reading lesson.
Your son might also be gifted. Many dyslexics are. A lot of the “weaknesses” are made up for in strengths in other areas. He might be a visual spatial learner and is strong in that area.
My eight-year-old was diagnosed with dyslexia just a few weeks ago. I just spoke with a tutor who assured me that the absolute best thing for her is to be homeschooled! I kept thinking about three years ago when we warily stepped into homeschool; God knew this day was coming! His perfect plan for her was already in place.
I just wanted to share incase it could help someone else....
My son is dyslexic and I read the book The Gift of Dyslexia. In there it talks about the Davis program. I was able to find a place that offers the program and it worked wonders for my son! After the program he blew through 2 levels of All About Reading in one school year! It was such a blessing for us!
Going through this right now with my 8 year old. This video brought me so much relief because we have nearly the same exact story and signs. What’s even more amazing is that we landed on the exact same 2 curriculums, All About Reading and Sonlight. She’s making progress it’s just slow. It’s been an emotional ride for both of us.
Thank you for making this video. I have a 10 year Oldboy who is in level 2 AAR. It’s a struggle. He gets upset. I get upset. It’s really hard.
Thank you for the encouragement. How can we encourage our reluctant, disheartened kids? My 8 year old sees her younger sibling "passing" her in reading and has started to show a lot of emotion and defiance when coming to the table to do reading and math lessons. She knows she's "behind" her younger sibling and is greatly discouraged.
I completely relate. My almost 7 year old is reading words that my just turned 9 year old can't read yet and he's noticing. :-(
my daughter is 8 and she is a kindergarten level in reading. she struggles so so hard with dyslexia
but we slowly make progress even tho some days all that progress goes out the window. ... it makes me so sad to see how it effects her life not just reading and I wish more people knew it doesn't just effect reading she also has adhd soooo there's never a dull moment with her around.
Yes it is "our" struggle I 100% agree with that
My 3rd grade daughter has dyslexia, and I can feel what you’re trying to say in the depths of my soul! We started tutoring (nothing super fancy as the prices are outrageous) in June and she has had so much growth! All About Reading was basically a joke for us in first and second grade (although highly recommended) until she could get some working memory and skills under her belt. It would probably work for her now, although I find Abeka to be working well surprisingly, bc I know it’s not OG. I think their use of drilling consonant blends has really helped her. It was so painful, and still can be, to listen to her work so so so hard on just a few sentences. We just want things to be easy for our children. The name Sam could have been in a book 45 times and she still had to sound it out on the 45th time. It’s exhausting for their little minds ya know. But unfortunately, the consistently and rigorous lessons are really what creates the most growth in my opinion. You’ve done great with him megan! I’ve been a long time subscriber and I remember your pride lesson video and when you got CLE learning to read. He’s come a long way! He should be proud of his accomplishments and hard work and YOU should also be proud, of not only him, but yourself and your love and devotion to help him, with the Lords help of course! 😉 ❤️
I relate to this soo much!
The whole see the word 45 times and still forget it....that was oldest. She is 15 now and reading not at her level yet but reading middle grade chapter books. She still sometimes gets b and ds wrong. There are still struggles, but her dyslexia tutor says it will always kinda be that way.
I haven’t even watched the whole video yet. I’m in tears . I need help. It was a rough day today going over his IEP at school. I really am thinking of homeschooling him. He is in 4th grade and reading at a 1st grade level.
I know this is an older comment but my son is also 4th grade and at 1st grade level. ❤ We are trying our best to help him through it
I'm so thankful I came across your video. This helped me so much. I am divorced and also a prior elementary teacher (I have a doctor of education and now teach doctoral students). Both my children struggle so much with letters, phonemes, processing information, and after even having a university test my oldest they even said he's adhd and dyslexic but their dad says it is all in my head. It's beyond frustrating to hit brick walls daily and not see many gains. I've never had to work so hard to teach concepts in my entire life. Thank you for sharing, as well as all the other moms who commented. It helps to know I am not alone.
When you said one week things go so well you think they got it and you get excited and then the next week it's all gone, brought tears to my eyes. We're just wrapping up a tough week. I never let him see me upset but it's weeks like this when things are tough that I start to question everything I am doing and all of those naysayers, who question whether if I should be homeschooling a dyslexic kid, start creeping into my brain. Thankfully my husband is 100% behind me, but I agree it is tough. I have one kiddos where school comes easy so to see my dyslexic son work so hard and struggle is hard. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for sharing! Is there any way you’d be willing to do a follow up? How the progress has gone being more independent, silent reading, and does this affect spelling (if so how to help with that)? There’s not a huge amount of newer information people are sharing, willing to share, and we can all use as much help as we can get.
Thank you so much for this. This has been my exact experience with my daughter. She is artistic, excellent at Math and able to play the piano but teaching her to read has been impossible. I guess I’m catching her dyslexia relatively early because I taught my older six kids to read with ease before they even started kindergarten. We used hooked on phonics. My second son was reading at 3 1/2 and was reading chapter books by the time he was five. My seven year old daughter has at times fooled me into thinking she can read because she has an excellent memory and will recite back passages to me after reading through them once or twice. I had forgotten that I had had difficulty teaching her colors until you mentioned that, rhyming words have been impossible for her to learn and normally rhyming words are so easy for little kids and sounding out words and spelling words seems to go well after a ton of effort one day only to be completely lost the next day.
I am crying right now, because I thought i must be such a bad teacher… your descriptions and experiences are so familiar. I am going to get my child tested- but this makes so much sense. I spent over an hour trying to help her remember four sequential numbers, only to have her forget the next day. It was not normal. She is a smart girl, but it is totally a processing thing that gets us so stuck. Thank you for sharing!!!
My 10 years has dyslexia. We did 3 complete programs. He has worked so hard. Hooked on Phonics complete program really helped reinforce things. He can now read independently and still does need help. Thank you for this video.
My daughter just got diagnosed with it and we are just learning to navigate it right. So very thankful for this❤️
Our experience mirrors this so much (10 yo son), thank you for the honest share! It’s heart-breaking yet frustrating for us mamas…let alone our children. It’s always encouraging to remember we are never alone.
Yes, it is normal for children to write their name backwards or letters backwards.
It’s part of the learning process.
My child never had early signs.
I noticed when 5 year old brother was at the same level as my second grader.
It’s gotten a lot better with daily reading and practice.
Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much for this. As much as I don't want anyone else to experience the same frustrations, it is so helpful to hear that other people are going through the same thing and progressing!
This was so so helpful. My 8 year old (just finished 3rd grade) is still struggling to read & I felt SEEN hearing you talk about your experience! So many similarities to your son’s journey. I, like you, started really realizing the depth of the issue and 100% knew it was dyslexia during his 3rd grade year. It’s so hard on the kid, but also hard to go through it with them. Thank you for sharing your story!❤ I have hope.
I don't know if my babygirl has this but she is struggling. She cannot read yet and is turning 7 this year. She is getting there but has really struggled!
I am so glad you made this video!!! You turned me into pride, it has been a game changer. I'm a new homeschool mom. We are in the yellow workbook. And I agree about it being intense. I kinda had the concerns about him getting frustrated doing it with me. Like the finger tracing in your palm makes him so irritated. Thank you so I have a clue after yellow book if we don't want to continue pride where to go. Your channel has been awesome
Oh I’m so glad to hear this! It really helped us so much! 💜💜💜
My little girl would have trouble remembering color names and would recall them in a way that she could like “green” was “grass”, “red” was “blood”, and “blue” was “sky”. And then couldn’t do two or more step instructions at once. She would just be confused. Also if I said, “your drink is over by the microwave”, she wouldn’t know where that was because she couldn’t remember what things are called. Another thing is she would come to tell her dad or I something and would forget so she would say, “I love you”, instead. Just seems like a state of confusion often. But she’s smart and witty. Seems like there has to be a processing issue. When she’s talking to us she looks up a lot with her eyes like she’s searching to find what she’s trying to say. (This reply is all over the place but this is some of what we are experiencing, she’s 8 now. Not officially diagnosed but thinking dyslexia is possible?)
My daughter is the same. 😢
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your experience! Except for the very end of your story (when you shared how he loves math and can retell what he heard you read nearly word for word), it sounded like you were describing my oldest son down to a T. 😳 I used to think dyslexia was primarily about reading and writing letters backwards and so I dismissed the early signs of that in my oldest child. Letter names, sounds and especially blending were not sticking that I also concluded maybe he was just not ready to read yet developmentally and to simply give the process more time and patient repetition. When his younger brother began kindergarten (three years younger), I was surprised how easily he grasped concepts taught. 😳 I continued more research as we slowly made progress with my oldest, using a variety of other supplemental resources (we were using The Good and Beautiful as our primary language arts curriculum at that points . He liked it for all the color and variety of ways concepts were presented, but the learning to read aspect was still a struggle. Spent two years on just their level K! 😳 The speed at which we worked our way through level one was also thwarted by me having preemie twins born that year. As we neared the end of what should have been his third grade, I knew I needed to do something different. I decided to give AAR a try (then if not enough, try some more resources I had read about for more severely dyslexic kids.) Thankfully AAR has worked well and we managed to push through level 2 and 3 last year! 🙌🏼Though we still have a long ways to go with fluency and speed with him, I feel such a relief to see his progress! Again, was such an encouragement to hear your experience! ❤
Wow, your video was such an answer to one of my prayers! Thank you!
Our journey has been very similar with my son, who is almost 7. He talked late, but had trouble with his colors too. He still confuses pink and purple on occasion, but it is because he doesn’t like those colors.
Our church is small about 30 people and we’ve been there for years and he still has some days when he can’t remember peoples’ names even though they talk to him every week. Yet, he knows the names of all the dinosaurs. He has a good comprehension for audio books and TH-cam videos and loves science and animals. He can recall very specific information about stuff he watches or listens too. He seems very average and capable in math as well.
Everything you described with learning the alphabet is the same with my son. One week I might think we have finally mastered all the sounds and the next week he can’t remember the names of m and n again. He has never been able to remember any basic sight words either. He is becoming more aware of his struggles and able to tell me such things like, “mom, I can’t try to read these words today because I can’t remember the sounds of the letters.”
I’ve not seen a need or benefit yet of seeking a formal diagnosis. I’ve been told told by his speech teacher that his insurance would help cover tutoring costs but it requires a formal diagnosis. But I’ve always felt like during any academic testing would make his confidence even lower.
His speech teacher recommended the Susan Barton Reading and Spelling Program. Are you familiar with that? Or do you know anyone who has personally been successful with it?
Thank you again for the video and sharing your experience. I have felt very alone in this journey and you blest my day. God bless you and your family💕
My son struggles with sight words too. He doesn't understand rhyming. Can't for the life of him remember that Thursday comes after Wednesday. No matter how much we drill. Learning the sound that Y makes was a huge task. And there's all the letters that he "learns" and then forgets. And the words he can't seem to recall, "Mom you know the thing that we use for the thing!" Can't remember his church friends' names either.
I thought he was just a reluctant reader. But there's just too many other signs that say otherwise. I considered asking the doctor for a referral to a speech pathologist last year because the amount of words that he mispronounced seemed excessive to me, but the doctor was a bit of a meanie. (We've been rotating doctors since our regular pediatrician retired early.)
Anyway, I've been wondering myself if getting an official diagnosis would be of any benefit. We're in California, and they passed a new law in 2020 or 2021 where new private schools no longer receive state funding (sounds unlawful to me). So I'd be on my own anyway since we legally homeschool as a private school. BUT a dyslexia diagnosis would would make so much sense! It might be a relief for me to know where we are, and where to go from here...but I'm not too keen on having my son labeled, and tracked (that's what they do in California once you're in the system). I'll have to research more.
Sorry to unload this on you. I just felt like I could relate to your comments. Yesterday I watched a "Do a lesson with us video!" and I wanted to cry watching this little girl my son's age (also a young 1st grader) successfully reading what many would considered as advanced. And here my son is struggling to understand what's going on reading - cat, mat, hat and sat words. 😢
I hope your child is doing well and enjoying learning despite the struggle. 😊
Oh and another thing! Now that I’m looking back, my daughter had the same issues with colors and letter recognition too! She also would often say “huh” when we said things to her, and still sometimes does and I wondered if there were hearing issues, there are not, but in hindsight I realize it’s the processing, just like you said!
I have 3 children with dyslexia and it was this way for all three of them. From the not getting the letters down for several years to rhyming to letter reversals, to swapping the first and last letters of the word to putting letters in the next word into the current word. Basically, if you look up the symptoms, my daughters have them all. Phonemic awareness as well. I have a 15, 12, and almost 9 year old. We have even done dyslexia tutors for my oldest, who is more profound than most.
This video helped so much! We are currently trying to decide to pull our son from the public school system. I’m just nervous about homeschooling.
I was so scared to homeschool at first and the first year was hard. I started with my daughter who was in kindergarten. The following year my teenage step son left public school to be homeschooled. This year I pulled my 7th grader and added my youngest. God is so gracious!! It was the best decision I have ever made!! Although I am just realizing (or am quite sure) my daughter has 2 forms of dyslexia I am so happy I am able to deal with it here in our home where there will not be so much pressure for her to compete. God knew what He was doing!! It's not as scary as it seems after a year in!! 😊
Thank you so much for sharing this!! I have a son with dyslexia and like your son he’s good with math and comprehends well. And his thinking process on things other then reading has blown my husband and i away at times. He definitely really struggles with word retrieval which I didn’t even know was a sign of dyslexia until I started reading a book about it. We definitely had a lot of similar early signs. We’ve used TGTB K LA, CLE Learning to Read and now All About Reading. We started the 100 easy lessons to read over the summer and I’m actually thinking about resuming. AAR is just not helping it doesn’t seem. With the Pride program do you have to do the 45 mins all At one sitting? My son is exhausted and yawning within 5-10 minutes of having to sit down and struggle through a reading lesson.
My youngest son has dyslexia and has helped me see I had it growing up and was never given help and still struggle with some issues today
My son is amazing at math and comprehension as well and a sponge for the bible !
Your son might also be gifted. Many dyslexics are. A lot of the “weaknesses” are made up for in strengths in other areas. He might be a visual spatial learner and is strong in that area.