Reading a thread in AIBU about spelling tests and a detention got me thinking. If my dd went to that school she would barely know what Monday playtime was!
My dd is 8 this weekend and in Y3.
Her spelling is terrible, inconsistent and non logical. If she really puts the effort in she may get 6 out of 8 in her test but more often then not we have what the last two weeks have brought and that is 1 or 2 correct. She also doesn't retain the knowledge of the words she has right so may get a word right in her test and then sit down to a task a half hour later and miss spell the word. She often can't make sence of her own spelling.
She is now a free reader but reading has come hard for her. She has speech problems (both delay and pronunciation) but as she had/has a physical reason for this in a very late complete tongue tie diagnosis and then also extremely large tonsils and adenoids. She had surgery aged 4.5 removing tonsils and adenoids also had her tongue tie released enabling her to now put her tongue out and move it side to side. Due to the severity of the tie she is still unable to lift her tongue.
It was no surprise then that she struggled with phonics gives she physically was unable to recreate the sounds and she has always preferred whole word recognition as a reading method. Her reading improved as time past and with speech therapy, she still has in school speech therapy and targeted speech group work.
Dd really struggles with writing, she is able to come up with some great ideas verbally but struggles terribly to translate this to written work. She got a 2c in her Y2 SATS for writing and at the start of this year was a 2a just about. They are due to start optional SATS soon so have no more recent level as yet but she has made progress.
Dd is not in the lowest 20% so doesn't fall into the targeted help groups.
I myself can't spell for the life of me but I am an avid reader although I to am a whole word reader, go on shape rather then content, I am better at spelling large more unusual words so I have always put myself in the lazy/rushing catorgary.
I am now wondering about dd and if dyslexia is something I should raise with the school? I have had a read of a couple of dyslexia symptom sites and can see other things that fit dd like her being a daydreamer with good long term memory but poor short term. She also puts a great deal of pressure on herself.
I do worry that as dd would not be a 'classic' dyslexic (whatever that really means) and the fact she is making progress would mean that it is an idea that wouldn't be taken seriously.
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Could dd be dyslexic?
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roadkillbunny · 20/05/2013 15:42
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