The student is seventeen and started working with tutor Krista almost two years ago. He has a diagnosis of dyslexia and when he first came for tuition, his reading age was significantly below average. The primary goal was to help him to overcome his dyslexic challenges, improve his reading ability, and help him prepare for his English exams with the assistance of a reader and scribe. The tuition is funded by the student’s college and the local authority.
The student has worked diligently to improve his reading skills and has made significant progress. The young man’s mother is very satisfied with his lessons and progress and regularly liaises with the tutor.
Tuition has had a hugely positive impact on his overall language skills and has taken his reading age from the age of five to approximately eight or nine. He has passed his functional skills English exams and is currently preparing for his GCSE English language exams. Unfortunately, there has been little direct communication from the boy’s college.
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Dyslexia is a common learning difference which affects how individuals process language and can make reading and writing more challenging. Ten per cent of the
The dyslexic community in the UK is sizable; “It’s estimated up to 1 in every 10 people in the UK has some degree of dyslexia.”
In 2019, The British Dyslexia Association found that, “dyslexia is the most common specific learning difference, affecting between 6.6 and 9.9 million people in the
