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My grand daughter, had allways suffered with Dyslexia
her mum and dad spent extra time with her at home to try and help,

The school kept saying that their was no problem with her and refused on numerous accounts to have her tested Because they said that the testing had to be done by a specialist who the school would have to pay out of their budget and they did not think their was a problem so in their opinion it was a waste of money.

She is now in her second year at secondary school but in her first year her mum and dad got called to a meeting with the head master to be told that they think she has dyslexia and was told that it should have been diagnosed and dealt with at primary school,

Despite this the school are still offering no help but thankfully she is doing very well as she is talented in other ways but i just wonder how much better she would be without the dyslexia.

Her brother just started at the same school no problems for him, he as and still is top in his year at all his subjects and that's been the case ever since he started at primary school

Roy

Roy I am pleased that your Granddaughter's parents were finally vindicated. My grandson's Dysphasia was not discovered until six form college and from then on right through Uni he got help. He was given a lap top to use and extra time for exams plus a helper if her needed it. He overcame his problem and went on to get a degree. I wish your granddaughter well.

AnninGlos, Thanks, but she still gets no help from the school,

I suppose it all depends on your post code

Roy

Sadly, if you can't enlarge on that Annie it is no help either way. This is not intended to be an us against them thread, nobody is accusing teachers, head or otherwise.

Hi

The last thing I want to do is spoil your thread in any way

My eldest son is in his 30's and when he was about 6/7 I went round to the school and voiced my concerns to be told go home and be a mother and let the school deal with the problem I trusted him and since then tried on several occasions including secondary school since then he was diganosed about 4 years ago too late for his ecucation

Good Luck

;-) ;-)

When my youngest son was seven I asked in school if he could be dyslexix (why is that word so difficult to spell). His form teacher at the time was newly qualified and a late entrant into teaching so I thought he would be able to help me. His reply was "dyslexia is a desease of middle class parents when they can not admit that their child is not as bright as they would like them to be" :-0 :-0.

I had to fight for nearly 2 years to get my son statemented and even then the school would not say he was dyslexic just that he had special needs. He was given extra help once a week for his reading and spelling. To do this they took him out of his Maths class so consequently he fell behind in Maths :-(.

I paid a newly retired teacher to give my son reading and spelling lessons twice a week after school. Money well spent. She taught him to read the old fashioned way ..... c.a.t. spells cat etc. School taught him to spell by word recognition ..... obviously did not work for my son. After twelve months he had a reading age of 9, when he started he had a reading age of 6 and he was nearly 11.

It was only when we moved 70 miles away and he changed school, now in High School, that dyslexia was officially mentioned to me. I even had to provide the new school with my copy of sons Statement. He finished school in the top set for Maths and the middle set for English ..... mainly due to his own hard work and determination.

Anything that can help all children get the correct help from everyone in education can only be a good thing
:-D

That is sad Bracken, he must always wonder how he might have done at school if he had been diagnosed. I am sure that it is much better than it was but it is still not right. Strangely my Granddaughter (Grandson's cousin) is borderline dyslexic, through her Mum fighting she was given one to one help and since then has come on in leaps and bounds. Her reading age is now more or less correct for a 9 year old. One thing though, her improvement also seems to have come since she started to learn to play the piano and to have riding lessons.

The main thing is to encourge the child Do your best to boost their confidence anyway you can wether it's to introduce music sport whatever and to give your child lot's of one to one (your time) and lots of patience a child with dyslexia needs more time to process the information needed to answerer a question

Fortunately our daughter in law is an excellent mother to both her children and gives them lots of time as does our son. We don't see them that often as we live 2 hours away. However we looked after them two weekends ago and I spent all afternoon crafting with Granddaughter while Granddad went to watch football with Grandson. she made lots of cards, she is quite talented that way, follows her Mum.

All sounds good to me I wasn't implying anything please don't think I was

I was talking of all the children that spend most of their day on Xbox and Wii ect.... and eat their tea in their room on their own the art of conversation nil It's such a same as some children start nursery and can't string a sentence to-gether ;-)

Done Ann, also shared on FB

Thank you Tess.

I agree with you Bracken, I didn't think you were implying anything. Our two do spend time on the PC but not that long 15 year old probably spends a bit more than the 9 year old as he is on facebook but he is doing OK at school and spends most of his time with his guitar, he is in a group.

Excellent My youngest is 13 and into music big style he is in the brass band at school plays the trombone along with guitar and keyboard better than wandering the streets looking for trouble

I can not believe this has been RRd???? !!!

It was a suggestion that people MIGHT like to sign a petition putting forward the suggestion that teachers should, as part of their training, be able to recognise dyslexia in the children they teach.

How on earth can that be a bad thing?!

I suppose someone might object on the grounds that it might 'label' someone, but surely if it flags up at a young age that there IS a difficulty it can be helped with...thus ensuring there is no inappropriate label ..eg "a bit thick and can't read"

Ann...why has your first post on here been RR'd??

jude

I am with you like I have said my eldest struggled all through school and early adulthood before being diognosed

Surely it is time this indiscriminate RR'ing stopped

Julia in Derbyshire

What have I missed why has the thread been RR? :-|

It does annoy me that people think that if you suffer from a form of dyslexia your thick, ok I cant spell well I think I can its not my fault others cant understand it , words on certain back grounds ( for instance black on white) tend to move around and appear that the words dont have a space between them, I miss read words....but I can walk round a supermarket and know the amount needed for my bil for a full shopping trolly of goods.Or add someone elses up and tell them how much change they will need before they finish whilst holding a conversation. :-D

How on earth can someone take offence at the opening post

Words fail me :-( :-(