u/Good_Dingo7736

I have dyslexia and I had an IEP from 3rd - 12th grade. I’m in college now (and I’m doing well I’m a hospitality major with a 3.5 gpa!) and my mom heard me reading a few times and said that I’m really slow and choppy when I do it so she has me working with a learning specialist to keep practicing

He tested me and said my I read 116 words per minute with a 85% accuracy and said he does think I can benefit from extra practice with him once or twice a week I looked it up and it said 116 words per minute was at a 4th grade level?!!!! He keeps saying that I am totally fine (he says I’m good overall reader because I can read whole words - but I have a problem with Word Attack) and ok where I’m at and that I will get better but it’s taking forever and even he seems a bit concerned at times so I feel like he’s just saying that to be encouraging

I’m in my second semester of college and my mom convinced me to see a learning specialist because I have dyslexia (diagnosed in 3rd grade iep all throughout school) I honestly thought I was fine and my mom was just being silly but he gave me some reading tests and stuff and he said that he would like to practice reading with me twice a week.

I am doing good in college though I’m a general hospitality studies major and I’ve only reacieved A’s and B’s (3.5 GPA!) better than in high school plus i obviously don’t have a IEP in college so I’m doing really good that’s why I’m confused ?

I can definitely read familar words that’s why I’m doing well. I asked him and he said that I’m a pretty good “whole word reader” but he said that I scored in the elementary range on my word attack ? He also said that i have the “dyslexic fluency”? He said that i only read one word at a time because my brain is processing so much and it’s taking away the understanding. I dont know i feel fine