I haven't been through it with my kids, but with myself. My mom asked my teachers when I was first starting school because I had problems reversing letters. A LOT of letters. THey said it was normal and I would grow out of it, which I did, but I still had issues with reading, handwriting, etc. I would ask, how is your son's handwriting? And does he seem clumsy? (bumping into things? And is he very busy? Dyslexia has to do with the eyes, not sight, but how your eyes focus and the message that sends to the brain. So while a normal person's eyes focus on the object they want to focus on, a dyslexic person's eyes focus slightly off...either just before or just after the object. So the message it sends to the brain about where that object is, is inaccurate. (I hope this makes sense...I've never tried to explain it without visuals) Imagine a V where the top points are your eyes, the bottom where your eyes meet to focus in on an object...that's a normal person's eyes. Now imagine an X where the top is your eyes and the middle is where your eyes meet, but put a dot somewhere above or below the cross point...that's the object you are trying to focus on. What that does is tell your brain "Here's the object you're looking for!" when actually, it's not quite where your brain thinks it is. This is why glasses don't help...it's not a sight issue, it's a brain issue. Some common, but not so wellknown symptoms of dyslexia are bumping into things because they are in a slightly different place than the eyes and brain perceive them to be, and being very active (a lot of kids are misdiagnosed with ADD/ADHD) because the world around them constantly seems like it's moving, and having poor handwriting because of the focal point being skewed. It wasn't until I was a junior in high school that my mom finally decided to get me tested herself since the school refused, because I scored really high on my ACT....except reading, which I only scored 20 on. I don't know if your school will pay for testing for your son, but if you are near a university with a psychology department, there are always students who need to do a number of psychological evaluations in order to get their degrees, so it's free. The evaluation also includes a dyslexia test. You may have to go through the whole entire psych test with ink blots and all, but if it comes out that there's a learning disability, at least you can finally get help. I did a LOT of research on it my senior year of high school and got some help from an organization that uses pennies in a sort of exercise for your eyes to help them to focus properly. Once I started doing those exercises, I retook the ACT and scored a 24 on the reading. (average is around19 or 20, 24 is considered good) So it really helped. I thought it was United Dyslexia association or something, but I can't find anything on it on google, so maybe I have the name wrong. You might look into it though.