Hi everyone. Long time no posts!

I'm looking for some advice and recommendations for board games really. It came up at a recent parent's evening that my nine year old lad my be dyslexic. He's currently working with a specialist during school and though nothing has been confirmed I'd like to try and help him out as much as I can. He's not rally a big reader and shows little interest in reading books (unless they're Minecraft related!) so I'm looking for games that involve a little reading (cards, etc) and a little maths maybe, but are also fairly easy to learn and don't take too long to play. I've had a look on boardgamegeek and a few other sites but there's sooo much out there it's a little hard to narrow it all down.

Any help and advice would be greatly received!

Ticket to Ride.

While not specifically a board game, I used magic the gathering to get my boy reading when he was less than keen, might be worth a little look

The two player duel decks for Magic are a good shout Sparky.

I'd also recommend Summoner Wars which is a little more self contained and finished as a game straight out of the box.

These are pretty quick 15-30 minute round games too.

If you're looking for something as a family, Mice and Mystics is a good shout - solid but straightforward dungeon crawl with a super strong narrative and full co-op play. The episodic nature of the story means you can do it in bite sized chunks too.

Noah.
Story cubes is good for that type of thing.
Ticket to ride
Catan
Alahambra
Carcassone
Dominion? Gazza plays it with his lad.

I play all those with my kids. Its a nice mix.

Top trumps
Battleships card game (its better than normal battleships)

Cheers guys! I'm getting on the research tip for these as we speak!

Memoir '44. My 7 year old loves it. Basic language skills to read cards, some basic maths to work out variable numbers of dice, and some memory/matching of symbols to effects on the dice.