One of the most important goals of school is to teach children how to read and write. But there are also children with great problems in reading and writing/dyslexia at school. In the Swedish School Plan you can, for example, read that one of the school’s most important goals is to give these children with special needs the help that they need. This study will investigate how six young people with reading and writing problems/dyslexia experienced the first nine years at school. There has been very little research regarding students´ experiences of having reading and writing problems/dyslexia early in school, which is strange because school is a place where children spend most of their time. This study will raise the questions about how young people were treated by their teachers, what they think of having a diagnosis, what kind of individualization they received and how they think about continuing their education. To fulfil the study’s purpose I did six qualitative interviews with young people between the ages of 18 and 24 years. The primary theoretical basis in this study was identity formation, inclusion, exclusion and integration. The results show, for example, that five out of the six young people sometimes experienced that their teachers didn’t understand their writing and reading problems and that resulted in inappropriate treatment from the teachers. The young people could feel anxiety which often led to low self-confidence. The diagnosis was difficult for three of them, but none of the interviewed felt that the diagnosis had affected them. The results also show that a good individualization was difficult for the teachers to accomplish in practice, and it also showed that previous experiences in school perhaps influenced whether they chose to continue their studies or not. One of the conclusions is that it is very important to discover a child’s reading and writing problem at an early age and to give the child a lot of help. Otherwise the child can develop a low self-esteem, and it is negative for a child’s identity formation.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka metoder lärare tycker fungerar i undervisningen av elever med läs- och skrivproblematik och hur de motiverar dem i förhållande till forskningen. Detta undersökts genom intervjuer med lärare och specialpedagoger på mellanstadiet. Resultatet av studien visar på att det är lärarens kunskaper om olika metoder och strategier som avgör om undervisningen blir lyckad eller inte. Detta beror på att alla strategier och metoder inte passar alla elever direkt utan behöver anpassas och bytas ut allteftersom eleven utvecklas. Hela tiden ska fokus ligga på vad som fungerar bäst för eleven. Undervisningen ska anpassas efter elevens behov och inte tvärtom. Samtidigt är det många i studien som påpekar att de anpassningar som är bäst är de som kan appliceras på hela klassen och inte enbart är för en elev. Det här är någonting som lärarna och specialpedagogerna jag har intervjuat håller med om men samtidigt använder de endast en metod, Rydaholmsmetoden. / The purpose of this study is to investigate what methods teachers think work best in teaching pupils with reading and writing problems and place that in relation to the research. This was done through interviews with middle school teachers and special educators. The result of the study shows that it is the teacher's knowledge of different methods and strategies that determine whether the teaching is successful or not. This is because all strategies and methods do not fit all pupils directly, but need to be adapted and replaced as the pupils develops. All the time, the focus should be on what works best for the pupils. Teaching should be adapted to the needs of the pupils and not the other way around. At the same time, many in the study point out that the best adaptations are those that can be applied to the whole class and not just for one pupil. This is something that the teachers and special educators I interviewed agree with, however, they only use one method, the Rydaholms method.