𝙶𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜! 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚎𝚜!

💥 💥 Children by the age of between 4 and 6 develop an awareness that words can come apart.

💥 💥 By between 6.5 to 7 years, most children can count the number of phonemes they hear in small words (about 70%).

💥 💥 About 30% of children who cannot separate the sounds in spoken words after a year of reading instruction likely reflect the 20-30% of schoolchildren who experience dyslexia.

💥 💥 Training a young child to attend to the sounds in spoken words before he goes to school significantly improves his success in learning to read later on.

Dr. Sally Shaywitz

Yale Center for Dyslexia