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Dyslexia

As defined by the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, dyslexia is a learning disability that interferes with reading and includes trouble matching physical letters on the page (graphemes) with their sounds (phonemes). Children cannot hold letter sounds long enough to apply them to what they are seeing on the page. 

The Georgia Educational Teaching Agency, which offers incredibly informative workshops on a variety of topics related to parenting, childhood development, and learning disabilities, explains that dyslexia has certain characteristics that can serve as red flags to parents and teachers. Among these are: 

Kindergarten and First Grade
Failure to understand that words come apart
Inability to learn and associate letters to sounds and sounds to letters
Reading errors that show no connections to the sound of the letters
Inability to read common one–syllable words
Complaints about how hard it is to read
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Second Grade and Up
Problems in Speaking
​Mispronounces long unfamiliar or complicated words, leaving out parts or confusing order of parts
Speech is not fluent; marked with hesitations, lots of um’s.
Not be able to find the exact word
Need time to summon oral responses
May misname objects. The misnaming is not a lack of knowledge but from confusing the sounds of the language
Difficulty remembering isolated pieces of information

Problems in Reading

Very slow progress in acquiring reading skills
Lack of strategy to read new words
Trouble reading unknown words that must be sounded out
Inability to read and remember small function words such as: that, an, in
Omitting parts of words
Fear of reading out loud
Oral reading is choppy and labored
Oral reading lacks prosody (intonation)
Reliance on context to discern meaning
Inability to finish tests on time
Disastrous spelling
Substitutions of words of the same meaning that are hard to pronounce 

The Georgia ETA offers a 2-hour parent class on dyslexia. If a group of you and/or business or place of faith are interested in hosting this or any of the other wonderful course offerings, please do not hesitate to contact the agency's Curriculum and Instruction Specialist:
Brenda Fitzgerald
​brendafitzgerald@georgiaeta.com
678.665.6606 cell
770.794.8525 office
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