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suspected 6 year old with dyslexia

Author:
Samantha Chessey (in need of help!)

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Date Posted: 16:44:40 03/26/12 Mon

I have a 6 year old who is in kindergarten and he has been struggling with school for about 6 months now. He has been lashing out on the teachers by hitting them and kicking and spitting at them when he has to sit down and do his school work. At first he tries but gets aggravated because he does not understand how to do it, and then he freaks on them. They have labeled him as a child with behavioral issues with out even testing him for any type of learning disabilities and have recently removed him from his original classroom and placed him in to a behavioral class room. He had entered kindergarten in special education because in preschool he was behind on his speech and mumbled all of his words together and dropped a lot of endings off words. He had and still has difficulty following simple directions and also rhyming words. Since he has started kindergarten I have noticed he has been having trouble learning letters and numbers in recognizing and writing them. Most of the time he writes them backwards, and seems to get confused easily. I have brought up to the school that he writes things backwards and they told me its normal for his age to do that. He is far behind all the other students as if he hasent learned a thing since hes been in school, and the teachers blame it on his behavior (which he only behaves badly in school and no where else, and he typically has not acted like this previous to attending school). Just the other day we asked him to write his name and he completely wrote it backwards starting from the right of the page continuing to the left, its was almost like an mirror effect like if you held it up to the mirror it would look correct, well I haven't seen him do this to this extreme so I called the school and told them about it and asked if he can be tested for dyslexia that this may be his problem and why he is acting out in school so much, and the school passed it off and told me its normal for his age to write things backwards, and refuses to test him for any thing they just keep saying he has behavioral problems and wants to focus on that first and that they want to wait till he is in second grade and if hes still writing things backwards then they will test him. He is failing in school and they are going to keep him back in kindergarten, hes struggling and I know he is not a problem child and I would like some advice from parents who have been through this and if they see these signs as associated with dyslexia. I just feel like the earlier we test for this and find out for sure the better off he will be, but do I just trust in the school and let him struggle for the next 3 years until they decide to test him? Lost and I dont know what to do or think someone please help!!

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: suspected 6 year old with dyslexia	Angela	08:01:46 03/27/12 Tue

Re: suspected 6 year old with dyslexia	st	04:06:34 05/11/12 Fri

Re: suspected 6 year old with dyslexia	Ann C Turner (have tutored dyslexics since 1955)	12:42:47 07/29/12 Sun