Hello All,
Just wanted to add onto this Post. As Im still struggling to get the right help for William. He did have a assessment in Jan 2010, and i felt it was quite a complex report and was carried out by a specialist teacher.. the results stated he had dyslexia tendency. His levels were at a 1 for reading and writting giving him a reading age of a 6 year old.(william was 8 and half when the test was done) Its now October and he still cant read and write. I have to read his home work to him so we can both do it together. I had a parents evening last week and was told by his new teacher he was LAZY...No teacher should use that word!! He also talked about william putting capital letters and full stops within his written work.... and i just wanted to say..hello..he cant read and write?? So i decided to contact a private educational psychologist, she kindly looked at the report and said William was really in need of urgent help and suggested that i go straight to the head of education within my area. I however did a bit of research and spoke to Parent Partnership and they advised to speak to the schools senco. I have since been in contact with the senco and they have said that william can be seen by an educational psychologist.
I dont understand why he wasnt seen by one in the beginning of the year? He has been having extra help for about 5 years now and still he cant read and write.
If its about money..then fine keeps us in the picture...but i just dont get how they can just let things plod along...and in the meantime ive watched my son now switch off from anything to do with reading and writting.
Hi Hallos
This happened to the son of a friend of ours (they live abroad) - he went through one of the best schools in this country and was labelled 'thick' by the education authorities and family - which he definitely wasn't!
It was only when he had stayed with us aged 15 and wrote a thank-you letter that I realised he was obviously dyslexic, and he'd had absolutely no help whatsoever! He's now a truck driver, so at least he has a job - but what a waste of his potential.
Please get this problem with your son sorted asap! Be a nuisance to the authorities until he gets the necessary help - unfortunately this seems to be the only way. Otherwise they are inclined to take the path of least resistence and do nothing.
On the other hand, we know of other children who have had help, and are now going to uni - so help can make all the difference.
I read somewhere that EFT has been helpful to deal with the problems associated with dyslexia - especially with the words jumping around and structure of letters. I'll try and find it for you.
Hello Caroline,
Thankyou for your reply. William has been getting extra help for years now, but i guess its just not helping him. The trouble is he was several years behind in Jan and although hes gone up a level hes still two years behind. I dont know if this is normal for a dyslexia child? Its tough for the child who has to struggle with there reading and writting but also tough for the parents...trying to get the right support.
I hadnt thought about EFT..for him, so thankyou for suggesting that.
Hi folks 🙂
Sorry to hear of your problems, Hallos.
I'd second whoever it was who recommended "The Gift of Dyslexia" - the author describes the experience of being dyslexic as the mind's eye being totally out of control, darting about, in around and all over the place. The trick, he says, is to get it anchored and under control - thereby retaining the gifts while letting go of the difficulties.
You could try getting hold of some modelling clay, Hallos - make big letters out of it, so your son can see all the way around the letters. Then start putting them together into words - particularly the "joining" words like "and" and "but", "the", "a" - the words they have so much difficulty with. And it might be fun for him, too, so less of a struggle to get him to do it.
As ClairBear says: overlays are the thing, too - try A4 size different coloured acetates and see which one William likes the best.
Different coloured pens/pencils for writing will also help him sort out written and writing information.
[url]Brain Gym[/url] was developed specifically for Dyslexic children to help them to get both sides of the brain working in concert. It's brilliant.
If you can bring yourself to label everything in the house - furniture, cupboards, fittings, etc, that helps with word recognition too.
The Dyslexia Association is a mine of information - and support - too, so try their website
And EFT is great, both for getting the mind's eye anchored and dealing with those pesky sequencing issues. You'll need someone who specialises in dyslexia. You can PM me if you like.
Your boy is very gifted - unfortunately, he's getting far too much information all at once to be able to deal with it. But with your determination and his, you'll get past this and, like Myarka, he'll probably make a great engineer. That spacial conceptualisation thing is ideal for engineering.
Hope this helps.
Fx
Being Dyslexic
I have developed a lot of interest in dyslexic kids lately and would just like to know if there is any natural therapy that can assist them. Or if there is anything in particular that they should avoid eating.
Dyslexia is a developmental issue, Flowers, not a dietary one - a good diet will help, obviously, but thinking differently is wired into the brain.
My last post below (17th November) will give you a few ideas. EFT is particularly good - you can find a published, peer reviewed case study here: [url]Emotional Freedom Techniques for Dyslexia: A Case Study | Energy Psychology Journal[/url]
Hope this helps
Dyslexia is a developmental issue, Flowers, not a dietary one - a good diet will help, obviously, but thinking differently is wired into the brain.
My last post below (17th November) will give you a few ideas. EFT is particularly good - you can find a published, peer reviewed case study here: [url]Emotional Freedom Techniques for Dyslexia: A Case Study | Energy Psychology Journal[/url]
Hope this helps
While I agree with you about the effects of EFT with Dyslexia, I feel the causes are multifactorial.
I am just reading a fascinating e-book called [url]Fire in the Belly[/url], where the author, Professor Keith Scott-Mumby, attributes inflammation in the gut to be the cause of very many of our physical and mental illnesses. It is fascinating, and based on new medical paradigms of nutrigenomics and epigenetics as associated with allergy and inflammatory reactions, the gut-brain link and how foods can play a big part, if a particular body reacts to certian specific foods. Well worth a read if you are open to new ideas.
However on past record it will take at least another 30-50 years for these concepts to be accepted by medical establishment, sadly. I remember that shortage of vitamin B12 was linked to foetal neural tube defects taught at my midwifery classes some 45 years ago being hailed as a 'new' discovery just a few years ago - what? Ignored and forgotten is more like.
I think you might be right in that there's a connection, Caroline - in my experience there do tend to be gut issues involved ... but I wonder if the gut issues are part of the developmental process, rather than the dyslexia being a result of the gut issues. I remember well the kid at school who had trouble reading, couldn't cope with "domestic science" as it was then and was generally thought of as "thick", rather than challenged.
Showing my age now: that was when all food was "organic" pretty much and we didn't have the food sensitivities we recognise as results of our modern diet.
That girl at school, whose name, I'm ashamed to say, I have forgotten wasn't an isolated case. There are actors, politicians and business moguls who grew up with the condition - Richard Branson being a prime example.
These days we have a tendency to put everything down to diet - and that it's a bad thing. What we tend to forget is that the species needs people who think differently to make progress. At any one time there are 10 of left handers, people with colour blindness, people with dyslexia and people with autism spectrum conditions. Nature keeps producing them because the species needs them.
We need to take a far more positive view of these developmental conditions than we do - appreciate the gifts in them, despite the many drawbacks - start teaching them in ways that make it easy to learn. And stop treating these people as if there's something wrong with them.
Dyslexia is a developmental issue, Flowers, not a dietary one - a good diet will help, obviously, but thinking differently is wired into the brain.
My last post below (17th November) will give you a few ideas. EFT is particularly good - you can find a published, peer reviewed case study here: [url]Emotional Freedom Techniques for Dyslexia: A Case Study | Energy Psychology Journal[/url]
Hope this helps
Many thanks coerdelion.
Showing my age now: that was when all food was "organic" pretty much and we didn't have the food sensitivities we recognise as results of our modern diet.
You must be pretty old - food crops were treated with non-organic pesticides throughout the 40s and 50s. DDT was common - Carson's 'Silent Spring' was published in 1962.
sorry to hear your problems.I don't know how to help you only hoping everything is getting better soon.