do dyslexic children have difficulties with concepts of early/late, before/after, fast forward/rewind and gets them backwards? (there was another one that is slipping my mind at the moment). my dd is almost 7 and i've been suspecting she may be dyslexic. she has a hard time understanding what getting up early in the morning means (basically thinks it's late). yesterday she kept telling me she wanted me to wake her up later than usual this morning so she could have more time to get ready for school. when she's watching a movie and wants me to rewind something she asks me to fastforward it. and if i ask her a question such as: what number comes before 7 she'll answer 8. and if i ask her what comes after 7 she says 6.
also, in math i'm starting to see some difficulties with comprehending concepts. i.e. they have a problem such as 3+2=5 and they want the children to come up with a simple story problem like: my mom gave me 3 cookies, then she gave me 2 more cookies. how many total cookies did my mom give me? instead she'll use subtraction and say "there were 3 cookies, and i ate 2, how many are left?" i tried to explain to her that her story problem she came up wtih is a taking away problem/subtraction, and that the math problem is an addition problem.
i've posted before about her other more typical symptoms with reading and writing. only thing is she's pretty good at her weekly spelling words and does well on the tests. we do practice them quite a bit but i have to come up with creative ways for her to remember them. sometimes i turn the words into pictures. for instance, one week she had the word 'eyes' on her test. so i wrote the word eyes and drew a circle around it for a face, and told her the y is like the nose and the e's were like the eyes. and the s was the ponytail. then she remembers.
also, in math i'm starting to see some difficulties with comprehending concepts. i.e. they have a problem such as 3+2=5 and they want the children to come up with a simple story problem like: my mom gave me 3 cookies, then she gave me 2 more cookies. how many total cookies did my mom give me? instead she'll use subtraction and say "there were 3 cookies, and i ate 2, how many are left?" i tried to explain to her that her story problem she came up wtih is a taking away problem/subtraction, and that the math problem is an addition problem.
i've posted before about her other more typical symptoms with reading and writing. only thing is she's pretty good at her weekly spelling words and does well on the tests. we do practice them quite a bit but i have to come up with creative ways for her to remember them. sometimes i turn the words into pictures. for instance, one week she had the word 'eyes' on her test. so i wrote the word eyes and drew a circle around it for a face, and told her the y is like the nose and the e's were like the eyes. and the s was the ponytail. then she remembers.
. I have my own way of counting hours or years, for example. I've always really struggled with math, unless it was something spatial like geometry. I frequently get right/left confused - but I don't know if that's because I'm ambidextrous or if it's related to dyslexia. She may be good at spelling because she is memorizing the shape or picture of the word. I do the same sort of thing. But strange fonts or handwritten words will throw me for a loop. HTH!
