How Do People Know They Have Dyslexia?
Dyslexia usually is not diagnosed very early in a child’s life, because children are not expected to learn to read until about age six. However, once children with dyslexia start school, they may have a very hard time keeping up with their classmates. Words and letters appear much differently Students with dyslexia often have trouble with writing and spelling as well as reading. Will and Deni McIntyre/Science Source, Photo Researchers, Inc. to a person with dyslexia than to a person without it. Sometimes words look all jammed together, while other times there seem to be spaces between words where they do not belong. Some people with dyslexia see words backwards, as if they were viewing the words in a mirror. They may see p’s where there should be b’s; for example, “pall” instead of “ball.” They also may see words reversed; for example, “was” instead of “saw.” More often, people with dyslexia do not recognize that words are made up of small units of sound, known as phonemes * . Because
