Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties

15-20% of us have some traits of literacy difficulties. The barriers created by these difficulties can be minimal with the right support. Our assessment process and specialist tutoring support aims to empower you and your family to recognise your child’s strengths, and tools to counter the difficulties.

What is dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which primarily affects reading and writing skills. However, it does not only affect these skills. Dyslexia is actually about information processing. Dyslexic people may have difficulty processing and remembering information they see and hear, which can affect learning and the acquisition of literacy skills. Dyslexia can also impact on other areas such as organisational skills.

Nurturing a child with literacy difficulties

It is important to remember that there are positives to thinking differently. Many dyslexic people show strengths in areas such as reasoning and in visual and creative fields. Having literacy difficulties at primary school can have a profound impact, not only on a child’s access to learning, but the views they shape of themselves as a learner. Children with literacy difficulties know that they experience early learning differently, and need a space where trusted adults around them nurture opportunities to discuss these challenges, alongside the magnificent resilience and strengths that often accompany a child with these difficulties.

The reading and writing will come. It is the confidence and agency that we nurture in these formative years that make the real difference in a child’s later success.

Dyslexia can create a unique ability to see every situation, opportunity and problem with a unique to see things that most people don’t, to see what most people can’t.

My child is showing traits of literacy difficulties. What can I do?

You have already taken an interest in these difficulties and started your research, which is a huge step in the right direction. If you would like to know more about the process of assessment (both with and without diagnosis) or are interested in targeted intervention from a specialist teacher, please contact us for more information. If you are not yet at this point, and wish to do more research, see the British Dyslexia Association for up to date support and advice for parents.