[senco-forum] [SENco-forum] dyslexia

Well, you are rather backing up my contention that good initial phonics instruction does make it easy to identify the 3-5%.  

Maggie 

SEN at tringham.net wrote: I disagree that it is hard to find the 3-5%.

They are the ones who after phonic instruction may know initial sounds and
recognise digraphs ch/sh as representing a single sound, but cannot cope
with blends even when taught as if they were similar to ch/sh, cannot blend
b-l bl without the 'shwa' even when they have not heard this modelled and
cannot 'juggle' with sounds in sound games. Depending in size of IQ or size
of difficulty they may fail with initial, middle or end sounds.

May be able to rhyme word families verbally but when faced with word tiles
still cannot change cat to rat even though they know both the initial sounds
'c' & 'r' and the 'at' sound. It is just one step too many.

Later with whole words cannot recognise the difference between  bat/pat, or
he/her/here without physically touching, tracing & counting the letters to
feel rather than see there is a difference and who try to regularise
non-words to something that their brain can make some sense of because
letter order in words or spellings have no right or wrong feel to them.

Sharon

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