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Subject: Could my daughter be dyslexic? Author: LF [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 20:56:04 11/01/12 Thu Hello, I am a mom and have a background in teaching. I have not worked with a child who is dyslexic before but I am wondering if my daughter is. I have done every activity, modification, sensory, oral, rote skill to help her recognize the alphabet and numbers. I have worked with her for years and at the age of 6, she knows only a handful of letters. Even her name, she has to sing it out to spell it. If you ask her a letter in her name, other than the first 2 letters, she can't recognize it. She suffered from the age of 12months to just this past month(just a month shy of 6) with chronic ear infections. Several tubes, constant strep throat and on antibiotics, adenoids and tonsils removed etc. She has been receiving speech therapy since she was 18 months and we just had her IEP last week to continue speech services. I mentioned several concerns I have..she avoids tasks that involve letters, sounds, phonemic awareness, number recognition or counting. She leaves once or twice a week during math in class to go to the nurse. She told me it was because it is too hard. I met with the teacher today and she is below basic at this point. Now, if I had not worked with her at all, that would be one thing. I have done everything that I did with my students in both regular and special ed classrooms. She doesn't stand out to the teacher but acts silly when she doesn't know the answer. That is what she does when she is nervous. I am meeting with her pediatrician on Monday and hoping to get a referral to the developmental peds. I just want my baby girl to be successful and I am having a difficult time helping her. Her hearing is good (just had a hearing test last week) and passed a vision test from a pediatric opthamologist about 6 months ago. Thoughts? Possible dyslexia? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: Could my daughter be dyslexic? Linda Christopher 22:05:18 11/28/12 Wed Re: Could my daughter be dyslexic? ANON 20:41:07 12/01/12 Sat Re: Could my daughter be dyslexic? Bonnie (Relieved to find this forum) 16:49:03 12/28/12 Fri Re: Could my daughter be dyslexic? -- LF, 19:34:14 01/24/13 Thu Re: Could my daughter be dyslexic? -- EB, 15:48:46 04/10/13 Wed Re: Could my daughter be dyslexic? Jellymom (happy) 17:13:30 02/08/13 Fri Re: Could my daughter be dyslexic? Ann Turner (mnemonic pictures) 15:33:27 08/11/13 Sun