Recall

[jarralass]

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone has any experience of this. At my DS parents night the teacher mentioned that she thought he had some problems with his recall, in particular his long term memory. It seems it goes in but he has trouble remembering it. He is currently getting phonics support along with another 3 from his class. But it seems to have come to ahead whilst doing Big Maths Beat that, he was unable to answer any questions (7) within the time. Teacher felt he panicked abit, even though had been covering the topic in class. She has agreed to test him again but not with a time constraint and making available number lines etc.

We wonder whether he is mildly dyslexic, we do have a behavioural optromitists appt end of Nov.

Any advice or experience will greatly reduce my anxiety. Thanks.

jarralass

Those who have Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) can have word recall problems due to a poor auditory memory. Those who have APD prefer visual approaches like number lines to help understand maths.
APD is one of the cognitive causes of the dyslexic symptom, and those who have APD are not able to sound out new words phonetically and are not able to use phonics.
You could have a look at my UK APD Links List

Could be a problem with his long term memory, or he could have a problem with his processing speed, or a number of other things.

The Gibson Test tests:

(1) processing speed,
(2) working memory,
(3) attention,
(4) long-term memory,
(5) visual processing,
(6) auditory processing,
(7) logic and reasoning.

So will give you a clue whether he's just panicking, or there's some other problem.

It only costs £20. If you do it, remember to enter his birth date in US format (month first) not UK format (day first)

Once you know where his weaknesses lie you have a better chance of helping him.

Any scores that come out as under the 25th percentile are something to look at. Anything about that is fine.

Thanks both for your help, will check out your advice. Thanks.