Can a child outgrow dyslexia?
Research suggests that with specific identification and intervention prior to the 3rd grade, children with dyslexia can learn to read and can become fluent readers. Without intervention, children with dyslexia may eventually learn how to sound out words and may memorize many words, but they will read slowly and inefficiently. Bright students can even “hide” their dyslexia for many years. However, as the demands of reading become greater, their struggles with reading may become more apparent (sometimes this does not occur until the college years in exceptionally bright individuals). Interventions can also be effective later in a child’s life, but the brain is most readily adaptable to change earlier in life. Waiting for a child to fail seems to be a particularly harsh way of determining whether he or she needs help, though failure is often required by schools before they will assess for reading problems. Reading tutoring from someone who is specifically trained to address children with
