Double Double Wammy

[TinkTatoo]

DS and DD both had educational psychological assessments today - in DD's case it was just supposed to be a routine IQ assessment for when she goes to mainstream school next year and for DS it was to see how suitable mainstream secondary school would be for him and to get to the bottom of his difficulty with reading / spelling. I was expecting her to confirm my suspicions that DS has Dyslexia.

I got a bit of a shock.......they both have Dyslexia in addition to their autism. DS is functioning in the high average IQ range and has been able to use his IQ to mask his problems and It seems that DD has "superior intelligence" and has been able to do the same to a much larger degree which is why we didn't even have an inkling with her :confused2 .

Oh well - it could be a lot worse but I just need to get my head around this one. Does anyone have any Dyslexia info / websites they can point me in the direction of?

[gala]

Oh dear Jakki - not a great day then? So sorry that you had this assessment for both the children. I cant point you in the direction of any advice but just came in to say that Im thinking about you all.

Maragret

[TinkTatoo]

Oh dear Jakki - not a great day then? So sorry that you had this assessment for both the children. I cant point you in the direction of any advice but just came in to say that Im thinking about you all.

Maragret

Thanks Margaret

[spider]

Sounds like you have had a double shock today, sometimes it doesn't rain but it pours eh:(

I'm sorry but I don't have any experience of dyslexia though, probably loads on the net!!!;)

Good luck, not sure what the education system is like in Eire, hope you get all the support they will need.

[loadsapixiedust]

No advice to offer just thinking how hard that must have been to cope with in one day, but it will probably help in the long run to access the help they both need. I hope you find lots of helpful info, I'm sure other Dibbers will have some experience to share. {{{hugs}}}

[BarryandCaron]

A shock Jakki for both of your children to be diagnosed with dyslexia and with their autism. {{{{{{hugs}}}}}} for you all and one good thing is at least they have the diagnosis to work from.

Ben had a private assessment when he was 10 and diagnosed with dyslexia but never statement ed. He got a lot of help at his secondary school up to year 10 and we paid privately for him to have help initially with a dyslexic trained therapist then an English tutor. He went on to gain C grades in his English GCSE's although still not a brilliant speller.

Sorry, I don't know about any Webb sites as we didn't go down that path.

Take care
Caron

[Cokec2000]

Hi Jakki

{{{hugs}}}

Our school is going through its Dyslexia Friendly Status process at the moment; there are some wonderful strategies that schools can use with children at all levels to help them cope. The website that has proved the most useful/helpful is:

http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/

HTH

Mandi :wavey:

[TinkTatoo]

Thanks everyone who posted - today is another day and things always look better in the morning. :)

[Michelle]

Jakki I have just seen this..{{{hugs}}} hope everything works out ok.

[pluto rules]

Your son will do well in secondary school, they are really geared up for Dyslexia/Dyspraxia.

My daughter was diagnosed with Dyslexia last year, my daughter is very intelligent, her primary school wouldn't accept that she had a problem they just kept saying her spelling and writing was very poor, she had a reading age of 13.5yrs when she was 10.5yrs but her spelling was of 8yrs.

In the end I made the school get a person in to test her, this was when it was confirmed that my daughter had Dyslexia, like your daughter my daughter had also masked it, she could answer any question verbally but had difficulty writting it down onto paper her IQ came back as 124 when she was 10.5yrs old, the test that they done on her was for older children.

The comprehensive school was notified, straight away they started to work with my daughter, the comprehensive senco used to come down to the primary school with a special lady that helps children with booster lessons for spelling/writing/reading.

All the teachers at the comprehensive are aware of my daughters Dyslexia, when there is a lot of writing they give out flyers for her books to cut down on the writing, she gets extra time allowed in tests and also the use of laptops, when it comes to GCSEs she will be allowed to sit them usuing a school laptop.

they use different coloured plastic strips for reading to put over the words, you can buy a Dyslexia dictionary.

I just want to reassure you that your children will make you really proud.
Thinking of you and your children lots of {{{{{Hugs}}}}

[TinkTatoo]

Thanks for this info it's really helpful

you can buy a Dyslexia dictionary..........

Do you have any more info on this like a name or a publisher?

[pluto rules]

Thanks for this info it's really helpful



Do you have any more info on this like a name or a publisher?


Its called ACE spelling dictionary
(ACE stands for Aurally coded english)
Its by David Moseley I bought my daughters from WHSmith I think it was about £9 or £10

ISBN 1-85503-214-7 thats the number printed on the back of the dictionary so i think that was the number they used to order it,
otherwise the barcode number is 9 781855 032149

The Educational Psychologist told me about this book after she tested my daughter for Dyslexia. Hope this helps best of luck

[TinkTatoo]

Thanks for that :thumb:

[RuddClan]

Just make sure you keep an eye on your children's education. It is easy for pupils to fall through the education system. It seems to be only those parents who are loud enough or pushy enough ensure their children get a fair deal.

[Mark1994]

When i was at school they just though i was stupid, and didnt know anything about dyslexia. So they didnt know how to cater for my needs, they didnt really help me with my problem... they just though i was thick.
Now its totally different, you can get special glasses which help with the reading side, and teachers are a lot more aware of the problem. Now i seem to have "out grown" the problem with a lot of hard work during school. although on a daily basis i will still make mistakes i was making when i was at school, although not to the same extent.
You get an extra 15 minutes per hour in exams, which helped me a lot as reading long passages took a while and checking and processing information could often take a few seconds longer which all adds up time!
Still now, i could be reading something and get to a word i've seen and read and spoke hundreds of times, its usually easy words like mouse or cheese, i will just get to it and stop, becasue i just can not read what it says for a few seconds... annoying... buts thats life!

[yatomi]

I have a good friend at school with dyslexia, and although this used to be a problem for her she still did very well in her GCSEs and hopefully when we get our Alevel results next week she will have done as well as, if not better than me in our subjects.
She wears coloured glasses, which they kept testing occasionally and she is on her 3rd colour so far lol as it changes gradually as to what colour helps her see best. Currently they are a turquoise colour. The only problem with these glasses are when teachers write on the increasingly common white boards with coloured pens...this means when she had red glasses we had to keep reminding eachers not to use red/orange pens as she couldnt see the writing and had to copy my notes. They are normally really helpfull though and soon learn...mainly so we dont shout at them :D

One of my distant cousins had a similar problem but used the coloured sheets to cover writing and her sheet music (she played flute among other things)

As mark said you get extra time in exams, and for some subjects such as science with lots of diagrams you can have the exam papers blown up to a larger size. Both of which my friend always uses.

Dsylexic kids also do very well with computing and ICT...my friend louise passed her ICT exam with an A*. She finds it much easier to do her work/homework on the computer with things like spell check etc

[Mark1994]

Dsylexic kids also do very well with computing and ICT...my friend louise passed her ICT exam with an A*. She finds it much easier to do her work/homework on the computer with things like spell check etc

I beleive there are different types of dyslexia... for example you said about ICT... now I sat a psychometric (sp) test, with shapes and etc, and out of about 50 others i scored top in that with 98% and i seem to do very well in those, not only very accurate, but i can process the information very rapidly.

[jeanette12]

Hi jakki there is a web site called dore www.ddat.co.uk they will give you loads of info and send you a dvd they will also send someone to your home to talk to you if you wanted they will explain to you how by helping your children do a few brain exercise's a day can have a concidrable effect. check it out they are very helpful and it is a drug free program

[TinkTatoo]

Thanks for all the usefull info :thumb: