Author: Pamela Taylor

What is the average age for assessment? In our practice, it’s usually about 5th to 6th grade, sometimes trending a little bit older.

Non words are important because when you have a reader that is using compensatory reading, as they get older, they have developed habits that we have to help override, and we can’t do that through words they’ve already seen.

One thing I wish parents knew was that one of the hallmarks of dyslexia is inconsistency. When you have a bright kid that is struggling in unexpected and inconsistent ways with reading, we should probably look at the possibility of dyslexia.

One of the most harmful myths about dyslexia is that if you are reading, you don’t have dyslexia or you don’t need help.

The truth is that most people with dyslexia do read up to a point, using “compensatory reading”.