Our son was diagnosed with verbal, auditory and visual dyslexia at 6. It took a whole lot of hard work and one-on-one attention from us (the therapist gave us the references and we did it ourselves).
He's almost 14 and still has a few issues ... when he's tired he garbles his speech a bit, and his handwriting is finally becoming somewhat legible. He's at a college reading level and a college math level. He has great friends and a 4.0. He's first trumpet it two bands and plays 4 sports. Everything "comes easy" to him now.
It was like pushing a train up a mountain ... so much hard and aggravating work at the beginning ... now it's all downhill ... like a runaway train down the mountain. Keep positive ... you'll get through it.
thanks for the positive input!
it looks like we’ve been spared visual dyslexia.
The hurdles are moments where he really needs to understand the spoken word, and he is also emotionally immature - socially awkward.
A kind and gentle giant - but difficult to play easily with other children his age.
A friend of mine was like that. In grade school, all the teachers labeled him as dumb. Now he mangaged a plant that builds fire trucks that he designs.
What got him started was he fell in love with something (fire appratus) and tried to learn everything about them at his job. That drove him to over come his reading issues. Another good thing was I kept giving him fantasy novels. He loved the stories so much he forced himself to read them.
Now he is working with his kids to make sure they don’t get labeled as stupid for similar problems.