dysTalk Help For A Parent - Dyslexia - Forum - dysTalk

Hi,

I am completely sure my son has Dyslexia. THe problem is his report card marks are good. However at his grade (3) they don't mark for spelling errors when he writes, they read the same books or passages of books he knows by heart, he has had some pretesting done. The pyscholgist who did it said that his academic performance cannot reflect how bad it is because he is of such high IQ he has disguised it and found ways around it however it is pretty bad. THe prinicipal at my school as so far refused to have him tested despite my best efforts. With this WISC IV showing such a huge discrepency and the psychologist who did the testing is certain I am right, I am hoping to finally get the testing done. I cannot afford private school or the tutoring required.

He is very depressed and ashamed of himself. His behavior is so different then before he struggled in school, homework is such a nightmare. It is so hard to be going through this and I am just at the beginning.

Does anyone know of good support groups, internet chat/forum places to go just to talk to people with kids that are dyslexic. Another problem is that because my son has good marks a lot of the fourm parents dismiss me because my kid doesn't have terrible grades. However his grades are good but he is ''guessing'' his way through, like so many illeterate people hid their problem and still got through schooling. It is getting a lot harder for him and I am working hard to get this attended to before he gets further behind. I am being told it is important ot get to it early so why is it so hard?

I feel so overwhelmed!

06/05/2011 22:54:01
c90213 (Member)

Hi

I don't know how much help I can be but I think clever kids struggle as much with dyslexia as special needs kids. My daughter is 15 and estimated A or A* in all her GCSEs except English where she is not expected to get a C. My daughter has had the tests done at school which indicate dyslexia and she scored 1.5 when 0.9 or above indicates dyslexia, so her results were at a high risk of having dyslexia. The SENCO said these results were fine in terms of extra help in school, but any official diagnosis needed to be done by the dyslexia foundation and the school would not cover the costs.

I have tried toe by toe limited success, THRASS with a bit more success but the best thing we have built up is a wordbank of common words she can never spell. The words are wriitten on squared paper with a letter in each square. the words are the cut out and blu tacked into a notebook. After she has written the word she bluetacs the word above it and moves her fingers along letter at a time to correct her spelling. After years of using she has built up a good wordbank and knows where each word is stuck in.

She also has coloured overlays which a Dr Whiteford based at UMIST Manchester tested her for. Hers are pink and she also finds it easier to put the background pink on the computer and write on pink paper. Pink may not be your sons colour but you could try out different papers.

My younger daughter is autistic and has learning difficulties but she is working on a beat dyslexia program with the SSSEN teacher and this should be available in all primary schools

08/05/2011 22:31:06
Nicola