Verbal Dyxpraxia & spellings

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Would love to know if anything works. DD is spelling things the way she says /hears them which usually results in her getting 1/10 the weekly spelling tests.

In contrast she reads really well & does really well at maths, though this was only after taking a completely different approach (Reading Recovery Programme & Numicon).

Has anyone got the magic bullet for spellings? I know in the grand scheme of things it's not the biggest deal but because her spelling is now so out of sync with the rest of her abilities I think she will soon get a bit frustrated. She hasn't been tested for dyslexia - yet.

As far as the school is concerned her only diagnosis is verbal dyspraxia and in this area you are cured of that when you reach the age of seven ( dd is 6.5 - hurrah!) . I know it's not that simple - she also has APD and has had motor difficulties as well. Her teacher is sympathetic but genuinely has no idea how to help.

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Dyslexia is a man made problem, not a condition, and it has three cognitive subtypes: auditory, visual and attentional.
So as your DD has auditory processing disorder (APD) then she has one of the underlying cognitive causes of the developmental dyslexic symptom.

There are no magic bullets for issues such as APD, and spelling, which can be a real problem. children and adults who have APD are not able to phonetically sound out words and are not able to use phonics. Those who have APD have problems processing the gaps between sounds, the sounds that can make up a word, or even the gaps between words in rapid speech. Which menas that APD can only learn new words by reproducing and the whole sound of a word, and so can only match the whole sound to the whole shape of the graphics used to represent the sounds in a word in text. Not ideal.
So many children who have APD like to use colours to provide a visual memory of a word, different colours for different letters, or different colours for different words, or different colours nouns or verbs, or different colours for different phrases, and eventually to what many adults who have APD use different colours for different sentences, and each new sentence to start on a new line. Which can seen on the APDUK web site, this workd if your DD is a natural visual learner, or is learning to become a visual learner to compensate for her APD.

thanks Dolfrog - I was hoping you were around.
That does sum it up as I understand it. I supppose my difficulty is that the school does not at all understand and I have to find a way myself of helping.
I think the colour thing may work for her - I have used this for learning days of the week for example and it seemed to help very quickly