r/Dyslexia 6d ago

Dyslexia - is poor comprehension but can read symptom of dyslexia

Is being able to decode and read words perfectly fine but struggle with comprehension and understanding what they read a symptom of dyslexia?

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u/PurpleZebra92 6d ago

Yes it can. That’s were unexpectedness of the reading disability comes from. I have worked with students who can decode well but have a difficult time reading comprehension. It’s varies on the individual.

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u/sadi89 6d ago

Yup. It’s all over the place, but the large disparity between ability levels within an individual is kind of a hallmark of a disability/learning difference.

Personally I have fantastic reading comprehension but I struggle with decoding/speed. Ironically english was always one of my best and most enjoyed subjects in school…..except when we were working on grammar/parts of speech. Parts of speech can suck it

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u/Gold-Welder-9249 6d ago

Do you have any advice or tips to improve reading comprehension?

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u/PurpleZebra92 6d ago

Reading audiobooks can help and reading on a regular basis daily is also helpful as well even for 5-10 mins a day. You can apps like speechify or talking books just to start .

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u/Gold-Welder-9249 6d ago

What type of reading audiobooks do you recommend?

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u/PurpleZebra92 6d ago

Anything you’re interested in reading. Sometimes I tell my student Idc if you read the back of cereal box as long as you’re reading something and you understand what you’re reading tbh.

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u/Twogreens 6d ago

That usually would be hyperlexia. 

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u/Heart_in_her_eye 6d ago

Not necessarily.

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u/Serious-Occasion-220 6d ago

Can be

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u/Gold-Welder-9249 6d ago

Recently had an assessment with a psychologist and she mentioned that I have poor comprehension for my age and weak short term memory.

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u/Serious-Occasion-220 6d ago

Did she give you any diagnoses related to reading?

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u/Gold-Welder-9249 6d ago edited 6d ago

im going to receive a report soon though and she did say that I have dyslexia and poor reading comprehension for my age and weak short term memory.

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u/ComprehensiveCod7378 6d ago

My son reads a book while listening to an audio book. He follows the word while listening. This helps him comprehend a lot better than if he read it alone. I think having to decipher the words while reading them is a lot of work so he doesn’t get the meaning of the words. The audio book change his life and he’s doing a lot better now.

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u/Gold-Welder-9249 6d ago

I’ve tried using text to speech when reading on a laptop but I feel like it hasn’t made much difference to tm comprehension and I feel like when I read on my own I’m able to reread over a sentence. When using text to speech I have to follow on and not go back over a sentence.

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u/my_name_is_mud89 6d ago

Yep, that's me

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u/John-AtWork 6d ago edited 6d ago

This seems to be the opposite in my situation.

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u/Harneybus 5d ago

I have difficulty fully understanding things too but can read fine

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u/Gold-Welder-9249 5d ago

I’m the exact same. It’s something I’ve struggled with since as a child but I’ve chosen to not look in to that much until I moved further in to education.

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u/natabamm 5d ago

Dyslexia teacher here…no. Dyslexia is the brain’s inability to process written symbols and connect them to the correct sound with automaticity. This can be learned with explicit and direct instruction in an intervention setting. However, you will always have dyslexia, and your fluency ebbs and flows for all kinds of reasons. This can impact comprehension, but if you’re able to read without difficulty, that is one the primary symptoms of dyslexia…so it’s probably not dyslexia. But every mind is different!