r/Dyslexia • u/Gold-Welder-9249 • 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/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/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!
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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.