Wondering if your child or student may have dyslexia? This post walks you through common dyslexia symptoms across age groups, explains why they matter, and provides a free printable checklist to help you track what you’re seeing. Learn how to use observation data, recognize red flags, and take confident next steps toward evaluation or support.

If you are fighting over homework every night - it's time to figure out what is going on. Often well meaning parents and teachers attribute a student's difficulty finishing or completing work to laziness, but the reality is that is just rarely ever the case. It's important that parents don't lose out on a more positive relationship with their child and get to the bottom of the homework struggle as quickly as possible. Often this struggle is caused by an unidentified learning disability - by identifying the core cause of the difficulties and outlining a plan you could change the future for your child.

A common theme that we hear from many of the parents we work with is, “everything was fine until third grade.”

Parents often wonder, what happened!? My child wasn’t struggling in class, the teacher didn’t express any concerns, their reading was on grade-level or close to it, and then suddenly in third grade everything fell apart. What happened!?

Noticing reading or spelling struggles in a child? Learn the most common signs of dyslexia at different ages, what they may indicate, and what to do next. This guide helps parents and teachers recognize patterns early and seek appropriate support, with a free checklist included.

While there may be some cases in which it is good to wait, generally the answer to this question is - YES! While you absolutely do not need an evaluation to get started with remediation, it can help guide treatment and answer many questions for you, as parents as well as for the clinicians working with your child.