All About Dyslexia

[tankee]

Orchid10


are you looking for public schools or private schools?

[orchid10]

I’m looking for public school. Thank You!

[cnimed]

Hi orchid10,


may I ask if your son went for any intervention classes, and if so, how were the results? thanks.

[orchid10]

Hi Deminc,


My son went for english intervention and is improving a bit, although the teacher said he needs to improves his spelling, comprehension and writing too. I think a lot of work to do on that. I dont know how schools with allied educator will help him.

One more thing my son is not only dyslexic maybe he has dyscalculia too. That is what the intervention’s teacher told me. Furhermore, he failed his maths in his mid year exam.

I’m still considering whether to let him stay in his current school and just send him to intervention class or change to new school with allied educator.

Please help n advice. Anyone?

Thanks

[JonC]

Where your kid go for intervention?


If both use different method of intervention, even both methods are equally good on its own, but 2 methods will confuse the child.

Get more advice from the main person giving intervention.

[cnimed]

Same question as JonC's Btw, JonC, you got a private tutor using OG method right? How long did u send your child for it?


Orchid101,
did the tutor say why he/she thinks it's dyscalculia? Does your kid have problem with basic mathematical concepts, or with symbols, or with sequencing/alignment etc? I think it's helpful to distinguish these.

[orchid10]

the same teacher that teach him english said he has dyscalculia because she tried once teaching him maths and she said he had it.


my son went to kids testing dyslexia centre. he only started early this year.

[JonC]

Teacher can only advice that your child maybe suspected of this or that or whatever, but he/she is not qualify to issue paper to prove it. Only qualify medical personnel (in the case of Dyslexia is a Psychologist) can test and issue paper to prove that your child is / is not certain condition. School / MOE normally accept this usually after EP (Educational Psycholists from MOE) endorsed it (normally no second questions asked). Schools’ Special Needs Teacher (if any) also can conduct certain test but also has to endorsed or further test by EP. Private Psychologists are usually much faster, MOE EP will take long time as the queue to take test is quite long.


I got my child tested last year September and immediately started intervention. From totally cannot read and cannot figure out things in the text till now able to read and understand a passage. Due to habit of guessing from previous disability to read, although now able to read, still at time chooses the easy guessing method when not under supervision. Just hope that this lasy /easy way out mode can be forgotten as fast as possible and able to catch up with the rest.

[cnimed]

JonC, that’s wonderful wonderful news! It’s always such a relief to see positive results and to know we are on the right track!


orchid101, are you doing intervention for maths as well? Shd ask the tutor for more information on his difficulties so that it’s easier to target each sub-areas. For my son, I realised that he has difficutlies with orientation (doesn’t know which is right or left, so how to read??), sequencing (letter-sound order is mixed up in his head), and he doesn’t see the "logic" of phonics. He is a very logical boy and if it doesn’t make sense, he can’t process. He also can’t filter out excessive noise (noisy classroom), or pick out visual clues from a cluttered page.

I didn’t send my son for intervention since I had no transport but we worked first on vision processing and spatial awareness. A lot of this work is gross motor work. Later I did use techniques and tips from books on dyslexia on how to teach reading. The results were good - from cannot read a single sentence to reading passages and basic spelling within a couple of months. All of these come together with improvement in his left-right awareness and after we had worked on a small set of trigger words for a month until he mastered them. However he still fatigues easily and his dyslexic tendencies will show up when he’s tired. So I’m not sure if this is compensation or due to vision issues. We just finished our assessment by DAS, waiting for report.

For Maths, I find that my son is good at mental maths, but can’t do it on paper. His mind goes blank. His hands need to move in order for him to think well. When starting any new concepts, we use manipulatives. After he’s familiar with it, he can do without the manipulatives, but he may still need to have something to fiddle with. I also have to explain to him why he needs to show working, and how to do it. Sequencing is a real challenge, but I think there is a developmental aspect to it as well so I leave it partly to nature since we still have time on our side.

[orchid10]

Tanks JonC & Deminc for your sharing


I cannot and dont know how to teach my son. my english is not good. im writing this coz i need help n some advice/sharing from other parent. because of this, i want him to go to school that have allied educator (last time thay call it SNO). I want the best for him. Every parent wants the best for their children right?

i dont know which school to transfer. Im afraid if i change him to new school with allied educator, will he get all the support? my experience with the current school (sorry cannot tell which school) i feel really sad coz they dont have the awareness of dyslexia. me n my hubby need to write letter, meet the principal and vp just to let them know about our son. Need to tell them the teacher what to do such as give him extra time during exam n many more. if not, they just dont care. sorry! im a bit emotional here...

That is why i join this group coz i want parent out there to share their experience which mainstream school that have this support and how is their children development. Which school in the east that can recommend me?

Thank you so much!