My dd is 7. She has always been very able and a 'high flyer' we never pushed her she just loved to learn and did it well. But over the past year she stopped progressing, lost her love of learning and lost a lot of confidence. Nothing made sense it was like everything was grinding to a halt but because she was still achieving to target school didn't see a problem. For various reasons things came to a head over the summer and I got an educational psychologist assessment done which confirmed she is really bright but has significant learning issues - poor processing and working memory which are really affecting her performance and her intrinsic awareness of the disparity in her ability and her performance has really knocked her confidence. School have been great now and taken it all on board and we will do anything we can to help her but I am struggling to get my head round this not being 'fixable' and she will always have to work so much harder to achieve. I know in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter and she is healthy and in my eyes fabulous but it makes me a bit sad as she works so very very hard and is so desperate to do well despite us reassuring her that being happy and just doing her best are the important things. Any parents of dyslexics got any advice ? I feel a bit out of my depth !
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Didiplanthis · 24/10/2016 21:58
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