20 Signs You Need The Ford Center for Reading

You wonder if your child’s reading is on-target.

Your child dislikes reading or avoids reading aloud. 

Your child has difficulty rhyming.

Your child confuses small words.



Your child has naming letters or learning the alphabet.

Your child reads or spells below grade level.

Your child has poor phonemic awareness.

Your child guesses at words when reading or spelling.

Your child has difficulty associating sounds with letters or phonics.

Your child struggles with reading comprehension.

Your child struggles to read or spell multi-syllable words.

Your child becomes frustrated during reading and spelling tasks.

Your child is not learning to read as fast or as well as his peers do.

Your child has difficulty recalling words he has seen many times before.

Your child adds, omits, or reverses sounds or letters in words when reading, spelling, or speaking.

Your child has difficulty with blending sounds into words or segmenting words into sounds.

Your child works harder and longer than his peers do on reading or spelling tasks.

Your child memorizes words for spelling tests, but later cannot recall how to spell them.

Your child has AD/HD or a learning disability such as dyslexia.

You've tried all kinds of tutoring and nothing seems to work.