Mrery Chmastris nad a Hpapy Nwe Yaer

People with dyslexia read differently from most people and will probably have read my message above with as much ease, as if I had spelt it correctly. They see words as a whole, rather than reading them phonetically. This is why you may notice your child with dyslexia reading all the long words accurately, but getting the small words wrong. There is just more information in the long words. My mother, who had dyslexia and a PhD in Biology, used to say that it didn't matter to her what order the letters came in a word. She was an absolute whizz at solving anagrams; my father used to leave all the crossword clues with anagrams in them to her. Curiously, in China, where they have two types of text (a phonetic text akin to ours and characters where each word has a different symbol), people experience two types of dyslexia. Some can only read the phonetic text with ease, and some can only read the characters with ease. Most English speaking people with dyslexia are like those who read characters more easily. Don't hold your child back because she finds short words difficult to read; you may be astonished, when you give her more complex text, at how well she reads it. The long words may be easier for her to read and the short words are always easier when read in context.