More Dyslexia Resources for Parents

If you are concerned about your child's reading development, a checklist can be a useful starting point for observation.

The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) provides dyslexia checklists for learners at different stages, including a Foundation Stage Checklist for younger children.

These checklists are not diagnostic tools. The BDA is clear that they cannot tell you whether a child is dyslexic.

What they can do is help parents and educators look more closely at a child's strengths, difficulties, and patterns of learning.

For a young child, that might mean paying attention to things such as:

• how easily they learn letter names and sounds

• whether they notice and work with sounds in words

• how they remember new words and information

• whether they have difficulty with rhyming

• how easily they learn sequences

• whether they are developing early reading skills as expected
  

You can find the British Dyslexia Association's dyslexia checklists here.

If your child attends an international school in Tokyo and you have concerns about their reading, spelling, or early literacy development, I’m happy to talk through what you are seeing and discuss possible next steps.

Kinota Braithwaite - Learning & Assessment Specialist

More Than Just Tutoring Tokyo

kinota@morethanjusttutoringtokyo.com