Anyone mind sharing experiences (teacher or parent) of ?dyslexic but good readers and how to handle the problems.
DD1 has just gone into Yr1. she is a very good reader, confident, reading early chapter books, Dick King Smith, Corgi Pups, Rainbow Fairies, Milly Molly Mandy, Paddington, Lighthouse Keeper type stuff. BUT she has coloured glasses because of issues with the contrasts on the white board and when we got them we noticed her reading improved drastically.
Without the glasses she misses out words, lines, punctuation, if she reads out the letters in a word she sees them in the wrong order. With the glasses she can control a lot of these relatively well. She certainly CAN read exceptionally well and much harder than she does but obviously with her age and problems she would find it too tiring.
She can blend quite well now but still sometimes has problems relating the phonemes (is that what they are called?) that she sees and knows and can tell you into the actual word. It is strange and hard to describe. She has always found it hard, even vocally, like she can't hear how the word is made up. She manages to do it but finds it difficult. Of course the words she stumbles on now are ones which are new to her (ie hasn't heard them not just hasn't read them before) so I am not sure how unusual it is.
I suppose I am looking for advice about what to do to help her. I personally think she needs some exercises in segmenting long and unusual words which she won't know but I don't have any and am not sure what words to use as well as the fact I suspect she would refuse to do it if I asked her to. I am hoping the school might give her some exercises because she is supposed to be getting an IEP as they are aware something doesn't quite add up in her development even though she is good at reading. I am assuming her IEP will be done in the next few weeks? is that unrealistic at the start of a school year, should I not be expecting it until half term? Is there anything else we can do to help her. Her eye convergence has all been checked out properly and her tracking is ok so it really is contrasts and presumably some level of borderline dyslexia (I am probably dyslexic) coupled with being very bright so being able to work with it to some degree on her own.
any experiences that might help me.
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any experiences of a ?dyslexic but very good reader - yr1
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Periwinkle007 · 13/09/2013 10:56
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