[senco-forum] Re: good readers but dyslexic

Question !?
What does 'at risk of dyslexia' mean?

Surely if you think someone is at risk then you assess .. or are people
bidding their time to see how they develop?

Just wondering as my local primary school has just used this term - so
popping in to ask them.

I would use it if I had screened them and they are awaiting testing.

Also know about the Snowling results (a wee bit out of date now though?)
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So is it down to family links and initial tests?

Tks
Stuart

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jean
Hutchins
Sent: 03 September 2007 15:44
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Subject: [senco-forum] Re: good readers but dyslexic

Philippa Boden wrote:
 >Over the years I have come across a few
dyslexic pupils whose reading is good and so their dyslexia is masked
somewhat.  Have you noticed this too?<

Yes. They use context and syntax and their intelligence
to the utmost, and work ten times harder than others
and cope until secondary school or even until college.

They are probably good fonetic spellers.
I wonder if they are the ones who can tell
that a spelling is wrong,
even if they do not know what to do about it.
So they can look it up or ask someone,
unlike those who do not know if a word
is right or not.

I could not understand how dyslexics
could be undiscovered until they got to college.
Are the schools and parents really that negligent?

Maggie Snowling did research on 'at-risk of dyslexia'
children in dyslexic families.
They were like those described above,
coping better than more severely dyslexic
family members, going unnoticed,
but they were identified as dyslexic when tested.

Jean
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Jean Hutchins, SE Surrey DA.
RSA Dip SpLD, AMBDA, retired.
E-mail: jeanhutchins1 at ntlworld.com
British Dyslexia Association Web: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
Also into spelling reform: www.simplifiedspelling.org
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