My son is five years old, very bright and is already reading fluently, but he reverses his b’s and d’s. Should I be concerned and how can I help him?
This is something many children do at his age. If it continues to the ages of seven and beyond, then a parent should have concerns about the child’s visual perceptual skills. I would then be curious if the letters “b” and “d” are the only reversals, or even if the same holds true for whole word reversals like “was” and “saw.” Tricks for learning the difference between “b” and “d” are that the “b” faces the rest of the alphabet while the “d” faces a, b and c. Plus, puzzle work will also help by practicing rotation of shapes and building visual memory skills.
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