All About Dyslexia

[sugarpie2honey]

She’s in a montessori program where they use the pink, blue, and green leveled readers…


For math, they have a systematic approach and for a long time she was stuck on the concept of 10 and 1 makes 11, 10 and 2 makes 12, etc.
I agree, sometimes I do feel what they expect is too much for her age/development.

Thanks! Maybe I should be more patient.
But it’s true that I’ve seen her reverse her entire name and quite confused with b, d, p…although she has shown some improvement. Ok, I may need to be patient. At what age would you say is right for assessment? Earlier assessment is better?

Thanks again for your help.

[3boysdad]

5 years a bit too young to diagnose unless there is a severe condition (i.e. not just dyslexia but autism etc).


A dyslexia diagnosis at 5yrs old may not be accepted by MOE and the reports are expensive. There are many books on dyslexia at National Library that you can read up to decide what to do.....

You can send her for a full eye test to confirm it is not eyesight difficulties. TTSH even has a eye test for children with learning difficulties http://www.ttsh.com.sg/patient-guide/find-care/clinics/page.aspx?clid=9 (p.s TTSH much cheaper than private clinic)

[susancollins]

Symptoms:

mixing up sounds in multi-syllabic words (ex: aminal for animal, bisghetti for spaghetti, hekalopter for helicopter, hangaberg for hamburger, mazageen for magazine, etc.)
early stuttering or cluttering
lots of ear infections
can’t master tying shoes
confusion over left versus right, over versus under, before versus after, and other directionality words and concepts.

[sugarpie2honey]

Thank you for sharing all to look out for.

:thankyou:

[Lauracwj]

Any one of you come across the easy read system from UK (http://www.easyreadsystem.com/home/P1-01.html)? This is a online reading system for dyslexia children. How is it? Is it good? Will you recommend?

[lynntan15]

Anyone has a good tutor/centre to recommend for Dyslexic kid in North East area? Please pm me or email me at [email protected]. TIA.

[grace bland]

hi friend,

Developmental reading disorder, also called dyslexia, is a reading disability that occurs when the brain does not properly recognize and process certain symbols.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors

Developmental reading disorder (DRD), or dyslexia, occurs when there is a problem in areas of the brain that help interpret language. It is not caused by vision problems. The disorder is a specific information processing problem that does not interfere with one’s ability to think or to understand complex ideas. Most people with DRD have normal intelligence, and many have above-average intelligence.

DRD may appear in combination with developmental writing disorder and developmental arithmetic disorder. All of these involve using symbols to convey information. These conditions may appear alone or in any combination.

DRD often runs in families.
Symptoms

A person with DRD may have trouble rhyming and separating sounds that make up spoken words. These abilities appear to be critical in the process of learning to read. A child’s initial reading skills are based on word recognition, which involves being able to separate out the sounds in words and match them with letters and groups of letters.

[kiasimi]

An inspiring article to share


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The size of this text may seem huge to you, but for Mayor Sam Tan, anything smaller means he won't be able to deliver speeches and presentations.

Mr Tan, the Mayor of Central Singapore District, is dyslexic.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Edvantage/Story/A1Story20120831-368866.html

[thetinyseed]

grace bland:

Developmental reading disorder (DRD), or dyslexia, occurs when there is a problem in areas of the brain that help interpret language. It is not caused by vision problems. The disorder is a specific information processing problem that does not interfere with one's ability to think or to understand complex ideas. Most people with DRD have normal intelligence, and many have above-average intelligence.

It is true that dyslexia is NOT cause by vision problems. However, there have been instances where a child has been misdiagnosed with dyslexia but actually had immature visual skills. As a result, the poor kid was put into dyslexia programme for 3 years with little results. The parents almost gave up hope and took it that their child was just \"not very bright\".

Hence, it is important to exclude vision issues causing poor reading. The intervention for vision related reading problem is of course different from those suffering from true dyslexia.

[Gin]

Hi,


Does anyone have comments about the Ron Davis Dyslexia Correction Method?

Thanks.