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Originally Posted by sbgrace  Dyslexia can cause copying issues and directionality issues.
But I would expect spelling to be a problem orally too.
Tracking only huh? See, I would expect this type of thing more with convergence issues.
(my son had both tracking and convergence...but I assume they tested convergence, right?).
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no other issues with her eyes, just the tracking.
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Originally Posted by sbgrace Here's dyslexia information so you can make sure she doesn't fit that profile (or if she does look into it further). http://www.dys-add.com/symptoms.htm
So if the vision issues don't explain it (did the doctor feel they did?) and dyslexia doesn't look like the culprit when you look at the above I would look into dysgraphia to see if it fits. Dysgraphia sounds like what you're describing to me. The tricky part is that it can go along with other things (like dyslexia), be caused by other issues, or stand alone. But it doesn't matter--it needs addressed no matter the issues.
If she's dysgraphic the very best thing you can do is teach her keyboarding (which will likely be more difficult to learn as well but necessary) and get accommodations in school so she can keyboard. You'll also work to get her as competent with writing (which she'll have to do in life of course) as possible. But you don't want this struggle to hold her back academically so you need modifications. It's a learning disability. |
i'm gonna copy her sx from the link you posted:
- delayed speech (not speaking any words by the child's first birthday. Often, they don't start talking until they are two, two-and-a-half, three, or even older.)
she was slightly delayed, we hard a hard time understanding what she was saying. we discovered when she was 3 that she had fluid in her ears and we wasted a year (per the ENTs suggestion) of trying meds before she finally had surgery.
- mixing up sounds in multi-syllabic words (ex: aminal for animal, bisghetti for spaghetti, hekalopter for helicopter, hangaberg for hamburger, mazageen for magazine, etc.)
she does this a little. ever since she was little she has always called 'dessert' 'bessert' and even though i've corrected it she still says it like that.
- lots of ear infections
yes
- can't master tying shoes
i've tried teaching her a few times but haven't really tried. so no, she still can't tie shoes.
- confusion over left versus right, over versus under, before versus after, and other directionality words and concepts
YES, and early/late, tomorrow/yesterday, these sort of confusion causes difficulty in conversations. i have a hard time understanding what she's talking about sometimes, whether it's something in the past or future.
- late to establish a dominant hand
after age 5 she decided to be lefthanded. i wouldn't say it was late, late... but definately later than my younger dd.
- despite listening to stories that contain lots of rhyming words, such as Dr. Seuss, cannot tell you words that rhyme with cat or seat by the age of four-and-a-half
*sometimes* she will have a hard time rhyming words.
- When they misread, they often say a word that has the same first and last letters, and the same shape, such as form-from or trial-trail. they may insert or leave out letters, such as could-cold or star-stair. they may say a word that has the same letters, but in a different sequence, such as who-how, lots-lost, saw-was, or girl-grill.
happens frequently
- becomes visibly tired after reading for only a short time
yes
- directionality confusion shows up when reading and when writing
yes, although her letters have improved, but still has troubles with them. her numbers are her worst. and will even write 15 as 51 and the 5 is backwards too. there is no rhyme or reason to them either, she'll have some incorrect, a few will be correct, and then a few incorrect again. constantly switching the directions of them
- Substitutes similar-looking words, even if it changes the meaning of the sentence, such as sunrise for surprise, house for horse, while for white, wanting for walking
yes
- Misreads, omits, or even adds small function words, such as an, a, from, the, to, were, are, of
yes
- Their spelling is far worse than their reading. They sometimes flunk inventive spelling. They have extreme difficulty with vowel sounds, and often leave them out.
yes, and spelling words she knew one week, she forgets the next. with inventive spelling she omits vowels frequently.
- Continually misspells high frequency sight words (nonphonetic but very common words) such as they, what, where, does and because—despite extensive practice.
yes
- Misspells even when copying something from the board or from a book.
yes
- Young children will often put their head down on the desk to watch the tip of the pencil as they write
YES! i used to think she was doing this to be lazy. she can NOT for the life of her write sitting up properly. her head is like a magnet to the table.
- Child has great difficulty getting letters to "sit" on the horizontal lines.
yes
- Copying off of the board is slow, painful, and tedious. Child looks up and visually "grabs" just one or two letters at a time, repeatedly subvocalizes the names of those letters, then stares intensely at their paper when writing those one or two letters. This process is repeated over and over. Child frequently loses his/her place when copying, misspells when copying, and doesn't always match capitalization or punctuation when copying—even though the child can read what was on the board.
not sure about this. i just know she copies incorrectly.
- Unusual spatial organization of the page. Words may be widely spaced or tightly pushed together. Margins are often ignored.
yes
- avoid writing whenever possible
yes, she hates it. reading and writing.
- not understand that a sentence has to start with a capital letter and end with punctuation
still forgets to do this.
she's my first so i'm not entirely sure what should be expected of someone her age. i just have a feeling in my gut that something is off. her grades have been slipping the past few months. i used to think she was just being lazy about alot of things. sometimes she'll even write her name wrong on her papers (leaves out a letter once and awhile). she loves to learn about science/nature/history and will watch any documentary on the discovery channel or history channel. but asking her to read a fairly basic reader at her grade level and you'd think it was the end of the world.
