DD does NOT have dyslexia...however....

[katymac]

She has some problems with Phonological processing. Does anyone know a) what this is? b) how I can help her?

The man (at the Dyslexia centre)I spoke to suggested that her problems may be due to being bright......

Don't quite know where we go from here - he suggested an Educational Psychologist.....I'll have to see what the school nurse says on Monday

I think he might mean that she reads whole words from picture memory rather than breaking them down into sounds and so she has problems reading words she doesn't already know

it may also mean she doesn't spell well

but as I say I think that's what he means

8 this month

It was at Indigo (which is a dyslexia centre) in Norwich

It was on a computer and there were 3 parts
Phonological processing
Auditory sequential memory
Phonic decoding skills

She got (according to the chap) very high scores on the lower two - but borderline on the top one

He was suggesting that she is bored in school (and also whizzed through the test)

katymac,

I don't know a great deal about dyslexia. I am a mum with a keen interest in reading/learning to read and reading problems. I have just completed a course in delivering a synthetic phonics program to children to teach them to read and spell (The Shound Reading System). It is used mainly to remediate reading problems but can be used with beginners.

Anyway, like other synthetic phonics packages, this package has been successfully used with dyslexic children. Dyslexic children often have a problem hearing all the sounds in a word or manipulating sounds to make new words. For example, they may not be able to blend c-a-t into cat or segment frog into f-r-o-g. In particular, they may have trouble following instructions like "Say 'pig' without the 'p'. If you give a dyslexic child some magnetic alphabet letters and ask her to make "pan" then change it to "pat" then change it to "sat", she may have difficulty with this task. This is what we mean by a phonological difficulty.

If you would like to know more about this, I suggest you contact Susan Godsland via her website, www.dyslexics.org, or Debbie Hepplewhite via her website, www.syntheticphonics.com or www.rrf.org. They will be able to offer you further information which you may find useful. They have both have experience of teaching dyslexic (and other) children to read. I'm sure hey will be able to suggest exercises that will help your DD to identify and isolate the sounds in words and this will make reading and spelling easier for her.

Hope that is helpful.

Wow - ChocolateGirl that's a lot of stuff

DD reads very well (there are other reasons for getting her tested) however this fits with her difficulties in pronouncing words and the occasional difficulties she has in spelling (she says "I didn't know it was said like that")

I will have a look at those websites - I have been looking at Celia2's link and bcoming very confused

Not your fault Celia - I just need to start slower.......

it's a problem, as I understand it, of 'hearing' the individual sounds (phonemes) in words. They don't quite register with the child, so their speech may be unclear and they may read using whole word recognition and not be able to break words down properly.

But the dyslexia centre don't seem to think this is a big problem for your dd. So maybe we are back to the being clever but bullied thing?

That's what the man at the Dyslexia place felt. He was very impressed at DD's abilities/competance/vocabulary etc

He had no reason to say she was smart if she wasn't. The centre is known for being blunt with parents - you know "they don't have dyslexia - they are just thick" not politically correct but......