'Wagnon' instead of onion, 'bomylette' instead of mobylette or 'Babado' to sink, Dyslexia affects 5 to 6% of children. But nothing is lost if the disorder is detected early. However, in the absence of diagnosis, the consequences can be very heavy. And it's true, the symptoms are not easy to spot.

To understand this disability face the mechanisms of reading, a one-hour film was directed by Jean Vercoutère *, for parents, teachers and health professionals, and to which many scholars, practitioners and researchers participated. This is not a story. This is the story of Dylan, a pupil of CE2, on the way of diagnosis, and Louis on the way of care and medical school.

When worry?

Given that dyslexia is a specific disorder of written language, we can not really diagnose a failure after the reading, ie during thesecond year learning(petite ou moyenne section de maternelle).

Certain signs should raise the alarm:

• Your child has a quick wit, brilliant spoken, curious about everything, but hard to read beyond the first few months of learning. There is a gap between its low level of reading and spelling and skills in other subjects, and between the richness of its ideas and the poverty of his writing.
  

• When it comes to read, write or understand through reading, it is slow or very slow, to believe that he is lazy.
  

• When reading or writing, it is confusion, repetitions, substitutions, inversions omissions of letters, syllables, words and / or numbers.
  

• It is difficult to sustain attention, to remember the proper names, lessons or poetry.
  

• It is wrong in the landmark space and time.
  

• He has problems to write, even in copying. His writing is often illegible or inconsistent.
  

• He can be ambidextrous (using either the right or left hand for writing, drawing ...).
  

• His mistakes are increasing as a result of fatigue or stress.
  

• He changed his behavior since joining the 'big school': it is more emotional, more anxious.
  

If your child has more than half of these features, talk to his teacher (trice) and your doctor, which will require additional medical examinations (eye and ear to verify the absence of trouble on this side) and paramedics. Including a speech or a comprehensive review in a specialized center. And since it is a family history of disorders of the oral and written language (parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts).

But even before the age of learning to read,parents can identify anomalies:inversions or errors in the words of three syllables ( 'tanpalon' for trousers), use of words close to the sounds (the 'meu' for cow), using the same word for different meanings ( 'baby' to describe all a baby for 'fall' or 'give').

Tips for parents

• Do not wait to see and hope that get fixed spontaneously and do not listen to those who trivialize the phenomenon: 'the click will be done', we must give it time ', etc..
  

• Do not scold your child, this is not a matter of laziness or inattention. You may develop in him a sense of shame or loss of confidence.
  

• Conversely, the assured him proving he is not stupid and by explaining that with help, he will overcome this obstacle.
  

• Accept that he needed more time than others to read and write and can not sustain attention long.
  

• Help him to read by choosing books tailored to their interests and make the play both.
  

• Helping his daily work such as correcting his text book.
  

• Help him use his memory by asking him to spell words, put in place compensation such as writing on a computer, often restart their attention.