The Swift School is a private, non-profit school dedicated to serving children ages six through twelve with dyslexia and related mild to moderate language-based learning differences. Though it is hard to draw a picture of what a dyslexic student looks like, often, parents will see some of the following characteristics in their child: 

• Bright, hard workers, but not excelling
• Know something one day and not the next
• Reluctant to take risks
• Low self esteem
• Struggling despite tutoring
• Weakness in basic reading skills
• Talented in arts and/or athtletics
• Strong in rote math but struggle with word problems
• Struggles to retrieve words/pictures
• Struggles with multiple step processes/directions
• Cannot develop sentences/paragraphs

All students at The Swift School are required to submit a current psycho-educational report. Though it is hard to generalize the educational issues attributed to dyslexic children, students at The Swift School typically have one or more of the following, as defined by Educational Psychologist:

• Discrepancy in IQ subtest scores (e.g., non-verbal abilities are higher than verbal abilities)
• Performance weaker than potential
• Weak components of reading (i.e., phonological processing, word attack, letter-word identification, blending, elision)
• Variable attention and/or concentration skills
• Auditory and/or language processing deficits
• Memory issues
• Expressive language weaknesses (oral and/or written)
• Oral reading performance issues (rate, accuracy, fluency, comprehension)
• Perceptional reasoning issues
• Visual motor integration issues