All About Dyslexia

[cocoa]

Hi,


Can anyone advise/share? How to differentiate kid is a slow learner or has learning difficulties like dyslexia?

Thanks.

[jenniferjoey]

cocoa:

Hi,


Can anyone advise/share? How to differentiate kid is a slow learner or has learning difficulties like dyslexia?

Thanks.

Hi Cocoa,

If you have read thru this whole topic about Dyslexia, all the mums are giving good advices and websites to find out and identify about Dyslexia.

Go to specialist to get diagnose by them if there is a chance that you or school teacher suspect your kid is having this problem. If result is negative, you will be relief. It's best to discover early.

- Dyslexia is difficulty in learning to read.
- Dyslexia can be related to brain injury, hereditary, or hormonal influences.
- Letter and number reversals are a common warning sign of dyslexia.
- Diagnosis of dyslexia involves reviewing the child's processing of information from seeing, hearing, and participating in activities.
- Treatment of dyslexia ideally involves planning between the parent(s) and the teachers.

Anyway, I personally felt Dyslexia children are very talented. They have their right sided brain trained to overcome with their weakness.

I have a friend who's son has Dyslexia, send him to DAS twice a week, attending primary school as per normal, and getting private tutor to guide whatever subjects that the boy is weak in. Must find a very patient tutor of course. So far the boy is doing very well, friendly and chatty. Just need help in academic. Hmm.... Most of the children also need help academically.

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hi, anyone knows if there is any holiday enrichment courses

for a 7yr boy. My son is just diagnosed to be dyslexic by DAS.
As the school holidays are coming, wondering if there is any
short course which assist in Dyslexic teachings , during this school
holidays.

[Vin_Kang]

My son is diagnosed to be dyslexic and had been attending DAS almost one year. I did not see any improvement on the english as he still fail on this paper. Next year he will be having PSLE. Pls advise

[Bentan]

Students with dyslexia may have problems with reading, spelling, understanding spoken words or expressing themselves orally or in writing. This workshop will cover:
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[Cheerfuldad]

Vin_Kang:

My son is diagnosed to be dyslexic and had been attending DAS almost one year. I did not see any improvement on the english as he still fail on this paper. Next year he will be having PSLE. Pls advise

Hi Vin Kang,

Same here, my DS is diagnosed to be dyslexic last year Apr 2008. Since then he has been attending DAS. This year his Pri 4 SA1 english result was 55 marks and we did not see any improvement. However, come to year end, his SA2 has gotten 73 marks and he is very happy and looks forward to attend the DAS twice a week. Met up with DAS's teacher and she mentioned my DS has improved.

I guess you have to be patient and give DAS time to help your son. I always tell my son this quote: \"Talent + Attitude = Outcome\" . My DS might not have the talent in english language but we parent must help him in the area of right attitude and we will be able to see a positive outcome.

God Bless!

[JonC]

Try to enroll to the Dyslexia Intervention Class here,

http://www.msl-orton.com

[cnimed]

Hi, My son has suspected dyslexia and have been advised to go for screening. However DAS says he’s too young for screening, but based on doctor’s recommendation, they can put him in early intervention even before screening.


Can anyone tell me more about DAS early intervention programme and the charges? How is it different from other reading programmes like I Can Read. All I know is that it’s supposed to be multiple sensory.

For those whose kids have been going, do you find it effective?

[JonC]

You can refer my post http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/messages/5/2001075.html?1266941600#POST9401190. Look for my post by \"JonC\" almost at the bottom.


We realised our child cannot read well at very young age, so my child went to I CAN READ during K1 & K2 in which \"progress\" from lower class to higher class, but still cannot read and even better, all the different teachers at different level did not mention or suspect Dyslexia.

I bring my child to a private psychologist for the test, heard its long wait at DAS. My child started with MSL end of P1 after the test and is considered mild case. Few months passed, my child from totally cannot read to able to read quite well now.

But its only reading improve, the rest of the EL, CL and MA skills still need to be taught and managed just like other normal kids or maybe even slower than normal kids as after able to read, still need to build Vocab, etc, etc.

For intervention, if you can afford, one to one is preferred as your child gets full attention and maybe more effective.

Above is just my experience, others may differ from mine.

[cnimed]

Hi JonC


Thank you for sharing. Dyslexia is something very new to me and it's mind-boggling the amount of information that is available out there. My son shows dyslexic tendencies, but at the same time, it's hard to tell - it's either very mild or he's compensating a lot. We are looking into this based on recommendation from the opthamologist following his complaints of moving words/letters. His phonological awareness used to be poor, but it sort of jump-started after I began using some resources for dyslexic children a few weeks ago. After two weeks he suddenly could spell many words and has less problems with sequencing. We also did drills, and I find that for words that he has been drilled on, reversals would not happen.
[quote] But its only reading improve, the rest of the EL, CL and MA skills still need to be taught and managed just like other normal kids or maybe even slower than normal kids as after able to read, still need to build Vocab, etc, etc. [/quote]I'm sorry I don't quite understand. Can you explain? What sort of difficulties will a dyslexic child exhibit for these? My son's maths abilities puzzle me. He figured out the times tables by himself and he could solve three-step problem sums as long as he doesn't need to write anything down. But the minute he has to write the steps down he gets lost and confused. Is that typical for dyslexic children?

Basically as long as it involves writing, it takes extra efforts because he has to sequence and order each number/letter in addition to everything else. When he is really \"thinking\" - playing with numbers, coming up with his own number patterns - the reversals would show up with a vengeance. [/quote]