Dyslexia "an excuse for slow children"
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dyslexichelpneeded
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Ironic that this string should have resurfaced on the day that I've come back from a meeting with the special needs teacher at my DD's school. I've just been told that my 'exceptionally bright' child, who regularly fails to finish exams, cannot be given extra time on the basis of the assessment so far performed by the Specialist Teacher. Interestingly, my daughter's word reading scores were sufficiently high that the Teacher stated that whoever taught her to read, did an excellent job. I taught her, before she started school, and it took endless patience. Now she has exceptionally high reading comprehension skills, and excellent spelling and individual word reading skills. Yet she is dyslexic. No school was ever likely to work that out, if I didn't know there was something not quite right in her functioning. Her dyslexia and dyspraxia mean that she works slowly, that her motor co-ordination is poor, and bizarrely, given her comprehension skills, that she has enormous difficulty working out what is required of her by a question on an exam paper. She will find the smallest ambiguity in the question, and worry away at it for ages, wasting valuable time.
Most interestingly, and this will be relevant to horsymum, the Specialist Teacher made the following recommendation: 'XXXXXX's motor coordination score was in the below average range. With her below average motor coordination and her high error rate , XXXXXX would benefit from using a word processor in class lessons and in examinations.'
Apparently, it has been shown that the dyslexic/dyspraxic can effectively gain 'extra' time by using word processing software, because they deal better with thinking on screen than if they have to manipulate a pen. Horsymum, it sounds like it would be worth getting your daughter assessed, because even if she doesn't want extra time, she might be able to benefit from modern technology.
Most interestingly, and this will be relevant to horsymum, the Specialist Teacher made the following recommendation: 'XXXXXX's motor coordination score was in the below average range. With her below average motor coordination and her high error rate , XXXXXX would benefit from using a word processor in class lessons and in examinations.'
Apparently, it has been shown that the dyslexic/dyspraxic can effectively gain 'extra' time by using word processing software, because they deal better with thinking on screen than if they have to manipulate a pen. Horsymum, it sounds like it would be worth getting your daughter assessed, because even if she doesn't want extra time, she might be able to benefit from modern technology.
contact the admissions department at the local council, ask them what assistance can be obtained for a child with SEN. They will tell you what can be applied for, school have to do this but if they know you know how the game works then they should play along.
Mine initially told me she would only get a seperate room in which to do her 11+. (its done at the local grammar on a sat here) when infact she recieved 25% extra time and sat the test at school on a weekday.
Mine initially told me she would only get a seperate room in which to do her 11+. (its done at the local grammar on a sat here) when infact she recieved 25% extra time and sat the test at school on a weekday.
