I'm really struggling with this!
My daughter is 7 and coming to the end of year 2. She's a bright kid who was exceeding in Maths, Reading, Writing, Communication , Understanding the World and several of the other EYFS areas at the end of Reception. I've noticed over the last couple of years that she isn't making the greatest progress at school. She's slipped from top set to middle for Maths and Literacy. She's still flying high in science, which has always been a real strength for her. Despite getting 10/10 in every spelling test her spelling when writing is dreadful. She is a very slow writer and although she's still above average, reading wise, she lacks fluency and is quite hesitant when reading. She reads long, complex words just fine but substitutes small words like but, who, she, he, the, a etc, at pretty much every opportunity. She will misread words for those with similar letters. Earlier today she read large in place of eagle. She is still mixing b,d,p,q,9,6, n,u , and many more up, both when reading and writing. She also reads and writes maths problems incorrectly, for instance 125 for 521. Previously, school have said that she's fine whenever I've asked and I've always come away feeling a bit neurotic. We had parent's evening recently and her teacher said she was ' so very bright' but testing about where she should be generally, but probably wouldn't get expected in the SATs SPAG test. I'm no fan of SAT's but is it right that she should have gone from exceeding to developing ( not reaching expected) in two years? It's a very mixed inner city school where lots of kids are really struggling and I feel a bit ridiculous even suggesting that she might be struggling. There is a very strong family history of dyslexia and I'm in two minds as to whether this might be the case for her. I've mentined dyslexia to school before and they've seemed to brush it off. I did an online dyslexia screen with her and she scored very high in all areas but failed to score at all in Visual Sequencing. She just couldn't do it. I dont really know what this means or how significant it is. I've asked to see her teacher and the SENCO to discuss this but feel like i might be making a big fuss about minor setbacks. Is there anything I can do? Thanks for your help x
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Join our Primary Education forum to discuss starting school and helping your child get the most out of it.
Primary education
Dyslexia, Visual processing problems or totally normal?
39 replies
bt110110 · 14/04/2017 00:09
OP posts:
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.