Teenage and Adult Dyslexics
http://www.dyslexics.org.uk/teenage_dyslexics.htm
I've also added this link to my thread on 'The dangers of have a go spelling':Early reading expert, Debbie Hepplewhite, suggests that it is because of mixed method teaching that many children who come from 'good' homes fail to develop into fully competent readers and spellers despite having had a broad and rich language experience from birth, though this may not become obvious until later on in their education. She says, ''We know that children with a richer oral vocabulary are at an advantage over children with impoverished vocabularies. Even where children CAN blend, they are more likely to discern the 'word' when it is within their spoken vocabulary. However, this is not always the case. We also know of many children from backgrounds which enrich vocabulary and provide a good knowledge and understanding of the world - and yet still children from such backgrounds may not fare well through a mixed methods approach. They may, for example, become hugely reliant on guessing the words from context and logic - but guessing it is nevertheless - and we know that sooner or later such multi-cueing guessing can fail learners. I have always suspected that it may not be until secondary school when many learners find they are struggling to such an extent that it can become a major problem. I have always suspected that the teaching profession generally has no idea of the true scale of this problem - whereby many secondary students 'blurgh' or skip over large numbers of words they cannot recognise or decode - but they still hang on to getting the gist of the text - just about'' (RRF message board 18/10/09)
http://phonicsinternational.com/forum/v ... .php?t=752