I am a college student doing a research paper on the awareness of dyslexia. I was wondering, what kind of training are teachers currently undergoing to become more aware of the obvious signs of this learning disability? I was blessed with dyslexia and was fortunately diagnosed when I was a junior in high school. Now in retrospect, the signs and symptoms of my gift were extremely apparent. What steps are being made to educate the educator's about dyslexia? I went through childhood thinking I was a complete moron. You know and I know that those feelings could have been avoided.

Davis Dyslexia Association International was established 4 years ago with one of our primary goals being teacher training. Since that time, we have been able to provide training to hundreds of teachers throughout the world. We do have an affiliated nonprofit organization - the Davis Research Foundation - which has in the past provided grant funding to teachers to complete training in Davis methods as part of research and development of classroom applications of Davis methods.

My daughter is seven and in second grade. I talked to the school principal about whether she could possibly have dyslexia. He said that it was not "time to panic" and that I didn't want to "label" my child just yet, and I probably didn't want the cost of the test right now either. He said that we should wait and see how she does. My daughter is getting very frustrated and does not want to read very much anymore.

1. The school will have to provide appropriate educational support, at their expense, and
2. Until your daughter is doing well enough to keep up with others in her class, the school will have to provide appropriate accomodations for her.

Dyslexia is not a bad thing. It is nothing to panic over; it is a learning problem shared by at least 15% of all schoolchildren, according to U.S. Government figures. That's one out of every seven kids!

The fact that your child is struggling with reading indicates that she is probably dyslexic. The time to get help is when you first notice that your child is having a hard time keeping up in school, or seems unhappy or frustrated. That's because your child is unlikely to be able to overcome her learning problems without extra help. Without help, she will fall further behind, become more frustrated, and experience increasing dismay and embarrassment at school.

More Information on this site: Testing By the School.

My daughter is 8 years old she is in 2nd grade and they just informed us that they are thinking of holding her back from 3rd grade because her reading and writing are not as good as should be. I have felt for a while that she is dyslexic. She writes the letters b,d,p,q backwards. Some days she reads okay and other days she will know a long harder word and not be able to say "on" or "the". I believe that she sees something different; for was she will say saw .

I am getting a tutor to help us for the summer. Should I wait and see if she improves enough to catch up to go on to third grade, or should I let her repeat the 2nd grade?