[senco-forum] Dyslexia Assessments

Mary Kelly <mary.kelly4 at ntlworld.com> wrote: But ... what if the reason the child struggles to spell /th/ with "th" and
/f/ with "f" is because they sound the same to him? Maybe he even pronounces
them the same?

About 50% of our children mispronounce 'th' as 'f' and consequently 'fink', 'fort', 'wiv' etc.  It's certainly phonetic spelling, but is it dyslexia?

 And he can't spell "tack" and "tank" correctly because they
sound the same ....

Needs a hearing test?  Also, can he say the words correctly?

I'm interested in Martin expanding on his 'written word specific' comment, because surely the written and the spoken word are intimately related? 

(Don't tell me, Martin, 'they're just good friends...')

Maggie

Mary

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In a message dated 25/06/2007 20:50:07 GMT Daylight Time,  
chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk writes:

Without  opening a can of works can I ask why you say that so  emphatically
Martin?

Chris, don't duck

Happy to open a can of works - will try anything once.

Dyslexia is written word specific. If there was no such thing as reading
and 
writing, the symbolic representation of our speech, there would be no  
dyslexia. However, there would still be auditory memory weaknesses and
phonological 
problems.

Martin

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