Experts encourage pre-school diagnosis of dyslexia
Children with dyslexia can now be diagnosed from as young as four-years-old, experts advise.
Chartered educational psychologist Dr Peter Gardner, said that diagnostic advances in recent years mean that dyslexic children can now receive help and support earlier.
Parents are advised that dyslexia is present from birth and so can be detected before a child reaches school age.
“All the available research points to the fact that if children’s learning difficulties are diagnosed early and appropriate help is offered at an early stage, the child is given the best chance of success,” he maintained.
“So much of the suffering and lack of self-confidence of these children could be avoided by a nationwide screening programme of children entering school.”
Early signs of dyslexia include short-term memory of spoken information, appreciation of rhyme and sound discrimination.
According to the Dyslexia Research Trust, approximately 50 per cent of the learning difficulty is inherited, with more males than females being affected.
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