dyslexia

[kathy1]

Hi guys, I'm new on here and would really appreciate some advice. My daughter has been diagnosed as dyslexic, has seen Ed Psych and is receiving excellent support at school. She is just about to go into year 5 and is starting to notice that she is different from the other girls. The reading which was her biggest concern has improved greatly, but she is quite young for her age. She still wants to play games at play time whereas the other girls just want to "hang out". She doesn't understand this and is feeling very lonely at school - it doesn't help that she goes to a small village school, only 6 girls in her year. Any suggestions? Also haven't told her yet that she's dyslexic, afraid of labelling her. Should I tell her? would it help her understand? Sorry such a long post!

I don't think I can help but I didn't want your question to be ignored. If you go over to special needs - education there's a lot more people.

My daughter is just finishing year five and has dyslexia but her problems aren't social, they're all to do with learning.

I think it helped her, after her diagnosis, when I explained that she learnt differently, she was just as bright as everyone else, but she might have to put more effort into learning to read etc. - not her fault etc. I tried to put a positive spin on it! There's a good book I read her chunks of called 'Upside down brilliance'.

I told my son as he asked me after all the assessments what was wrong with him. The way I explained it was

I asked him what he was good at (he's a great sportsman and v, artistic)
I mentioned a couple of kids from class and asked if they were as good at those things as he is. he said know.

I then said some things we have to work at and learn in a different way to others and we all have our strengths and weaknesses. But there is nothing wrong with him its just he needs a nit of help with school stuff.

He seems to have accepted that and works very hard to do his best. I hope i explained it to him in the best possible way.

Dyslexia is a man made problem, you do need to identify the underlying cognitive subtype of issue or issues which are causing the dyslexic symptom.

There are three cognitive subtypes of developmental dyslexia, auditory, visual and attentional. So an auditory processing disorder (listening disability), a visual processing disorder, an attention disorder, or any combination of the three can cause the dyslexic symptom.

Those children and even adults who have an Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) as the cause of their dyslexic symptom, will have problems following conversations, problems following verbal instructions, and problems using phonics. The coping strategies tend to be lip reading, and reading body language to help fill in the information processing gaps.

sorry taken me a while to get back to you guys, haven't been on here for a while. Thanks for all the advice, feel loads better now. Will definitely tell her about the dyslexia this week. Will get the book Kattt, thanks.

What do you mean bŷ excellent support? We had a private assessment we were so worried about the profile of DS's progress ... And indeed the disparity between verbal/cognitive skills and literacy skills was enormous. A year on our school has never acknowledged the report and furthermore do not agree with "wlabelling" children. I'd just b interested to know type of support available to other children - thanks