I have been told my daughter has a retention problem, can anyone help

[Gourockgirl]

Two days ago after years of shouting at my daughters school, I was informed that my daughter has a retention problem, After reading a number of threads on mums net. ( this is the first time i have visited it). i am now thinking do I need to ask for more information? My daughter told me today that she has to put some coloured plastic across words, what she is being tested for?

can anyone help and does anyone know of any suppport groups, as at the moment I feel very helpless

Gourockgirl
Using coloured plastic or acetates is possibly an early attempt at assessing one of the cognitive subtypes of Developmental Dyslexia, more specifically Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome.
There are three cognitive subtypes of developmental dyslexia auditory, visual, and attentional.

Dyslexia is a man made problem, a social construct, about having problems with a man made communication system, the visual notation of speech, or decoding and recoding the graphic symbols society chooses to represent the sounds of speech. Dyslexia is language dependent.