Ds1 is 9 and has asd, anxiety, and can be very oppositional due to his need for control. When he was younger I noticed he would sometimes read words back words and some letters he would write backwards and was told normal for that age. A few months ago we finally had an assessment from OT which was very eye opening. It showed a weakness in his right hand. He is right handed, writing is appalling and can hardly ever get him to write. He can't hold pen/pencil 'correctly' and puts too much pressure resulting in arm ache. Anyway, he brought some written homework back home (can hardly ever get him to do it normally) and I noticed he had written words incorrectly. Eg for warm he had written 'wraw' and I noticed a lot of b and d the wrong way and random capitals in the writing. On the assessment on 4 pieces of paper he wrote his name and each one he wrote it differently, eg 2 s when there is only 1 s. He also put a 4 instead of an h etc. OT said he has I think it was processing disorder?
When doing maths he was putting letters sometimes instead of numbers. I asked the head about dyslexia expecting to get dismissed and she said 'oh he would def score on it. He would have spikes.' I think she meant he wouldn't be bad enough to get diagnosis? Can you just be 'abit' dyslexic??
Any advice would be fab.
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purplerainbow · 06/02/2016 14:59
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