DS1 (10), who has a diagnosis of dyspraxia, has just had an assessment for dyslexia. We havent had the results yet but it looks as if he is only borderline. However, the area of the assessment he did very badly on was word retrieval. He found it incredibly difficult to name categories of things or to name things beginning with a certain letter. He went blank after naming two or three things ( had 30 secs).
I am not surprised by this as he has always been quite hesitant and rambling when he talks. He has a wide vocabulary and general knowledge, but struggles to express himself fluently in speech. He uses a lot of fillers - ers and ums, repeating phrases - and as a result is sometimes quite hard to follow, although this is improving as he gets older. The content of his speech is often quite complex, which makes it worse!
The other part of the assessment he couldnt do at all was a 'spoonerisms' test, where the assessor said ' lazy dog', for example, and he had to say
'dazy log'. He just froze - couldnt even make an attempt.
Does anyone have any experience of this and anything we can do to help?
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sphil · 30/08/2011 17:53
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